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THE 

COINS,  TOKENS  AND  MEDALS 


OF  THE 


TOWN,  COIJNTY  AND  UNIVERSITY 

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BY 


WILLIAM  GEOEGE    SEAELE,  M.A. 

VICAR  OF  ITOCKINGTON,  CAMBRIDOESHIEE,   AND  L.VTE 
1  KLLOW  OF  iiUi;;:>;s'  COLLEGE. 


PRINTED  ri'f.   IlIE  CAMBRIDGE  ANTIQUARIAN  SOaETV, 

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AT  THK  UNlVEllJilTY  I'KESW. 


OCTAVO  PUBLIC•ATIO^•S, 
No.  XII. 


THE  COINS,  TOKENS  AND  MEDALS 

OF 

CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


The  medallic  monuments  of  the  town,  county  and  univer- 
sity of  Cambridge  are  of  the  following  three  sorts  : 

I.  The  royal  coinage. 

II.  The  tokens  issued  by  private  individuals. 

III.  Medals. 

I. 

The  royal  coinage  extends  from  the  reign  of  Edgar  to  the 
reign  of  William  II.  and  belongs  exclusively  to  the  town  of 
Cambridge. 

In  Ruding  {Annals  of  the  Coinage  of  Britain,  3  vols.  4". 
London,  1840)  we  find  the  following  notices  of  a  mint  at  Ely. 

'  Of  the  mint  in  this  city,  no  records,  it  is  believed,  now 
remain;  and  all  the  information  at  this  time  to  be  obtained 
respecting  it,  must  be  gathered  from  the  coins,  wliicli  still  exist. 
From  these  we  learn  that  Edgar  and  Cnut  coined  licre. 

'Beyond  that  period  its  existence  cannot  be  traced,  for 
nothing  is  to  be  found  in  Domesday,  and  no  other  coins  but 
those  of  the  al-ove-mentioned  monarchs  liavc  yet  been  traced 
with  the  name  of  this  city.'    (ii.  157.) 


iv 

Among  tlie  mints  of  Edgar  we  find 

ELY.    (Ending,  i.  133.) 
And  among  tliose  of  Cnut 

ELY.    Ely?    (Eliding,  I.  138.) 

However  of  tliis  town  no  notice  is  taken  in  B.  E.  Illlde- 
brand,  Anglosaclisiska  Mynt  i  Svenska  kongl.  myntkabincttct 
funna  i  Sveriges  jord  (4*".  Stockholm,  1846),  which  describes 
4232  Anglo-Saxon  coins  from  Edgar  to  Edward  the  Confessor. 

The  description  of  these  conis,  as  liere  given,  is  little  more 
than  a  rearrangement  of  the  coins  descrihed  in  the  above  work 
of  B.  E.  Hildebrand,  a  few  being  added  from  the  collection  of  the 
British  Museum,  through  the  kindness  of  W,  S.  W.  Yaux,  Esq. 

IL 

Of  the  private  coinages  belonging  to  Cambridgeshire  there 
are  two  classes. 

i.  The  private  tokens  of  the  xvii.  century,  and 

ii.  The  jnivate  tokens  of  the  xviii.  and  xix.  centuries. 

i.  ■  Of  the  first  class  of  tokens  there  is  a  considerable  num- 
ber, and  not  only  do  the  large  towns,  Cambridge,  Ely,  AVisbeach 
figure  in  the  list,  but  also  many  small  villages. 

The  earliest  date  found  on  tokens  is  1G4S,  and  they  were 
forbidden  by  a  royal  proclamation  of  16  Aug.  1672 ;  the  dates 
on  the  Cambridgeshire  tokens  extend  from  1651  to  1671 ;  they 
are  all  private  except  the  one  issued  by  the  overseers  of  tlie  poor 
of  Littleport.  They  are  halfpenny  and  farthing  tokens,  mostly 
the  latter,  and  bear  often  on  the  reverse  the  initials  of  the  issuer 
and  his  wife.  Tncy  have  a  mint-mark,  which  is  usually  a  mullet 
or  star  of  five  points. 


The  descriptions  and  notes  are  taken  from 
W.  Boyne,  F.S.A.    Tokens  issued  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tmy  in  Enghand,  AYales  and  Irehand  (8".  London,  1858). 

C.  C.  Babington,  M.A.  Catalogue  of  the  Tradesmen's  tokens, 
known  to  have  been  "issued  in  the  County  of  Cambridge,  during 
the  Latter  part  of  the  17th  century,  in  Antiquarian  Communica- 
tions (i.  15—28). 

C.  H.  Cooper,  F.S.A.    Annals  of  Camlridge  (ni.  541—3). 

ii.  The  tokens  issued  in  tlie  xviii.  and  xix.  centuries  were 
struck  by  private  persons  to  facilitate  trade. 

Of  these  th  ere  are  four  quite  distinct  divisions : 

The  copper  tokens  struck  between  1788  and  1800. 

The  copper  tokens  struck  between  1811  and  1818. 

The  silver  tokens  struck  in  1811  and  1812. 

The  copper  tokens  struck  since  1818. 

■The  national  copper  coinage  had  towards  1790  l)ecome  very 
much  worn;  it  was  also  insufficient  in  quantity  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  trade,  and  accordingly  it  was  felt  to  be  a  greai; 
convenience,  when  about  1787  the  Anglesey  mining  companies 
issued  their  handsome  pennies  and  halfpennies,  whicli  were  of 
full  weight  and  bore  on  them  a  promise  of  exchange  for  the 
national  currency.  Other  persons  took  up  the  idea,  and  a  very 
great  number  of  these  tokens  were  issued.  Use  soon  degene- 
rated into  misuse.  Tokens  began  in  1794  to  be  manulacturcd 
in  prodigious  qnantities,  and  as  collectors  of  this  kind  of  coins 
multiplied,  for  tlicm  coins  were  created,  either  purporting  to 
belong  to  diffeixut  towns,  where  they  were  quite  unknown,  or 


vi 


by  mixing  obverses  and  reverses  indiscriminately,  thus  pro- 
ducing the  so-called  'Mules';  a  third  class  of  private  coins 
consisted  of  pieces,  which  resembled  medals  rather  than  coins. 
These  were  manufactured  to  gratify  the  longing  of  unscientific 
collectors  for  new  varieties.  This  tendency  was  well  satirized 
in  the  following  token : 

Ohv,  TOKEN  collectors'  HALFPENNY.  PAYABLE  ON  DE- 
MAND 1796.  A  connoisseur  smoking  a  pipe,  sitting  by  a  table 
spread  with  medals,  an  old  man  standing  behind  him  putting 
upon  his  head  a  fool's  cap. 

Rev,     BE  ASSURED  FRIEND  MULE  YOU  SHALL  NEVER  WANT 

MY  PROTECTION.    An  ass  and  a  mule  saluting  each  other. 

.  Edge.  ANY  SUM  given  for  scarce  original  impressions. 
(The  letters  raised.) 

Another  differs  only  in  the  reverse : 

ASSES  RUNNING  FOR  HALFPENCE.  Two  boys  riding  a  racc 
upon  asses.    (Conder,  Provincial  Tokens,  p.  219.) 

The  great  Soho  copper  coinage  of  1797  put  a  check  upon 
this  private  coining,  and  there  are  but  few  tokens  belonging  to 
the  last  years  of  the  18th  century.  The  Soho  coinage  liow- 
ever  also  raised  the  price  of  copper,  and  this  caused  the  heavy 
tokens  to  be  melted  up,  and,  as  the  public  refused  to  take  the 
lighter  ones,  they  too  experienced  the  same  fate.  Towards  1811 
the  want  of  copper  money  again  had  become  felt,  while  the 
price  of  copper  fell,  and  the  mining  companies  sought  to  get 
rid  of  their  copper  by  coining  tokens.  This  was  done  to  such  an 
immense  extent,  that  it  was  found  necessary  to  declare  the 
coining  and  circidation  of  tokens  illegal  by  act  of  parliament 
from  1  Jan.  IcS  I H. 


Vll 

Since  that  time  only  a  few  coins  have  been  struck  with  a 
claim  to  the  name  of  farthing. 

The  want  of  silver  money  produced  a  private  coinage  of  silver 
tokens  in  the  years  1811  and  1812  ;  of  these  one  belon2;3  to  the 
town  of  March.  - 

The  descriptions  of  the  tokens  of  this  second  class  are  taken 
from 

Jos. Neumann,  Beschreibung  der  bekanntesten  Kupfermiinzen 
(8".  Prague,  1858  fF.),  Yol.  iv. 

James  Condcr,  Arrangement  of  Provincial  Coins,  Tokens, 
and  Medalets.    8".  Ipswich,  1708. 

Boyne,  Silver  tokens  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland.  8".  Lon- 
don, 1866. 

III. 

To  this  division  belong 

i.  Medals  issued  on  the  occasions  of  the  installation  of  tlie 
•different  chancellors. 

il    Medals  given  as  prizes  by  the  university. 

iii.  Medals  given  as  prizes  by  the  colleges. 

iv.  Medals  of  the  boat-club  and  other  clubs  of  the 
university. 

V.    Medals  of  the  college  clubs. 

vi.  Medals  of  private  societies. 

vii.  Miscellaneous  medals. 

Of  these  thr,  1st,  4th,  5th,  and  6th  sets  were  issued  by  tlic 
Messrs  Peters,  Tu' arket-place,  till  tlie  death  of  Mr  J.  C.  Peters 


I 


Vlll 


in  1867,  and  since  his  death  by  his  successor  in  the  business, 
Mr  Munsey. 


This  list  must  be  understood  to  be  mainly  a  compilation 
from  materials  already  published,  the  only  thing  attempted  being 
to  present  to  the  reader  as  complete  a  view  of  the  medallic  series 
of  the  county  as  was  possible.  The  second  division  will  pro- 
bably never  be  much  increased,  although  in  the  first  class  tlic 
compiler  has  been  fortunate  enough  to  add  two  more  viUages 
(Histon  and  Eltisley)  to  the  list  of  names  already  known. 


I. 

THE  TvOYAL   COINAGE  UNDER   THE  ANGLO-SAXON 
AND  ANGLO-NORMAN  KINGS. 


CAMBRIDGE  MINT. 


i.    Anglo-Saxon  Coins. 
EDGAR.  959—975. 

Olo.    Tlie  king's  head  to  the  left     Ficv.    Witliin  the  Inner  ch"cle  a,  small 
(dexter  side),  with  diadem.  cross. 

EADI;AR  rex  ANr,LO\X  +  ALBART  j\I-0  nRANT 


EDWARD  THE  MARTYR.  975—978. 

King  Edward  the  martyr  is  the  first  monarch  who  is  Icuown  to  have  coined 
[at  Cambridge].  A  penny  of  his  has  Grant  on  the  reverse.  Taiding  (1S40),  i.  13^, 
ii.  157. 

ETIIELRED  II.  978—1016. 


I.    Ohv.    The  ldng:s  head  to  the  left. 


+  ^DELRiED  REX  ANnLO 


+  EDELRED 
+  EDELRED 
+  JEDELRyED 
+  EDELRED 
+  ^DELR^D 

+   

4-  iEDELRED 
+   


ANIr 

ANLO. 

ANIrL 

AN 

ANLLO 


AXr.L 
AN  5 


Eev. 


Within  the  inner  circle  a  small 
cross. 


+  iELEfl  M-Q,  LI~NTE 
+  JELVpJTr  ON  LRANT 
+  LLERN  ^[ON  LARNTET 
+  LEOFSIIrE  r.RA 

+    ON  LRAN 

+  f  VLFZIL  ON  r,ARNT 

+    MON  TrRANT 

+  f  VLrSlTrE  M-o  r.Ii 

+    —  r,nAN 


2 


II.  Ohv.    The  king's   bead   to  the 

right  (sinister  side). 

+  iEDELRED   REX  AXnLOwX 
+  iEDELRTED    ANnLO^; 

III.  Obv.   The  king's  head  to  the  left, 

with  sceptfe. 

+  iEDELRiED  REX  AIJ.r^LO^X 

+  iEDELRED     

+  

+  iEDLRYED  

+  iEDELR^D     

+      '  

+  TEDELRiED   ■  —  

+  iEDELMD    ANGLO'" 

+  iEDELRED    ANGLO\X 

+  iEDELRiED   ■  ■  

+  iEDELRED    ■ 

+  iEDELRED     

+       • 

+  iEDELRiED     

IV.  Ohv.  The  king's  head  to  the  left 
without  any  diadem,  the  haii-  expi-essed 
by  lines  diverging  as  from  a  commou 
centre,  and  terminating  in  pellets. 

+  ^DELRiED  REX  ANI^LO 

+  iEDELRED    AN 

+      ANt 

+  iEDELRDE    ANLLOX 

+  yEDELR.ED  ANErLCP 

+  ^DELRiED   At. 

+  iEDELRED   ANlSLaXX  (?) 

V.  Ohv.  The  king's  head  to  the  left 

helmeted  and  with  a  radiated 
crown. 

+  J^DELRiED  .  R!:X  ANnLO 
.  +     .  .  ANIrL 


Rev.    The  hand  of  Providence  between 
A  and  w. 

+  pILMVND  MONETA  LRANT 
4-  J7YLFrrAR  M~0  MIAN 

Ilev.  A  cross  voided,  reaching  to  the  inner 

circle  ;  in  tlie  angles  C-lv-V-X. 
+  iELFRlE  M-Q  LRANT 
+  iELFflNE  M-Q  LRANT 

+  EADMVND  —   ■ 

+  EADRIL       —  ■  

+  EADpINE  —   

+  EDRIL  —   

+  EDflNE     M-0  t.r.AN 

+    —  ISRANT 

+  IfODjZINE     —     •  • 

+  IIVNSTAN  ]\rO  TrKAT 
+  IIVSTAN    M-Q  LRAN 

+  LEOFNOD  —   

+  OSLYTEL  M-Q  T.l^AX 

+    M-0  IrRANT 

+  SIDflNE  —   

Rev.  Long  cross  voided,  e  xtending  to  the 
edge  of  tlie  coin.    (Irish  type.) 

+  iELFRIL  WO  IrRAXT 
+  ED/INE  M'O  LAN 

+    —   LRAN  (or  LRA) 

4-    no-  LRAN 

+  LODRIL  M'O  LRANT 
+  jZVLFSILE  Id'O  LRANT 
4-    M-O  LRAN 

Rev.  Cross  voided,  extending  to  the  edge 
of  the  coin,  over  a  square  with  three 
pellets  at  each  corner. 

+  LEOFSILE  M'O  LRANT 

+  J7VLFSIL  M'O  LRAN 

-f  fVLFSILE  M-Q  LRAN 


3 


CNUT.  1016—1035. 


I.  Ohv.    The  king's  head,  crowned  to 

the  left,  in  a  quatrefoil. 

+  LNUT  HEX  ANLLOI 

+  ANnLORJ 

-\  ANr.LORYM 

H  .  ANr-L 

-j  ANItLOKV 

-I  ANISLOR 

_|  ANnLO"^ 

H  •   ANHL 

H  ANnLORV 

+  •  

4-  ANE.LOI 

_]  ANIrLO 

+  • 

+  ANLLOI 

_1  anItLOyx: 

 ANCLOR 

H  AN  XsLO 

-I  :  ANr.LOR 

4-    ,   ANIrLORVM 

4-  — ■  ANLLO 

+  ANIrLOrv 

II.  Ohv.  The  king's  head  mitred  to  the 
left,  in  front  a  sceptre,  the  inner 
circle  touching  the  shoulders. 

+  LNVT  KEX  A 

H  •  EEX  AN 

-!  EEX  AN 

H  EEnx 

+  LNT  RELX  ANn 

III.  The  king's  head  to   tlie  left, 

crowned,         a  aceptre. 

+  LNYT  KELX 


Rev.   Cross  voided  extending  to  the  edge 
of  the  coin,  on  a  hirge  quatrefoiL 

+  ADEA  ONI  nKANTB 
H-  LNIIIT  MO  nRAN 

+  

-\  ON  nilAT 

+  


+  LYNIHT    ON  nUAN 
+  nODf  INE  M  r,RA 
+  LEOFSI    ON  r,RANT 
+  LEOFZin  ON  LKAN 
+  LEOFSir.  M  IIRA 
+  LEOFSILE  MO  LRA 
+  LIOFSIG  ON  nRAN 

+  LIOFSII  —   

+    —   _ 

+  ORNST  M?0  LRA 
+  f  VLFSI  ON  LRA 

+    —  r,RANT 

+    —   

+  jZVLFSm  MON  IrRA 

+   .     ON  nRAN 

+  jZVLFSlI  ON  IxRAN 

Rev.  Within  the  inner  circle  a  cross 
voided,  the  limbs  issuing  from  a  cen- 
tre circle,  loops  in  each  angle. 

+  ADA  ON  IrRANTI  (b.M.) 

-f  ^LFj7in  ON  ItRATE 

+  ED]7INE  ON  IrllANT 

+  LRIM  ON  nRANTE  (i3.M.) 

+  LEOFSILE  ON  nRAN 

Rev,  Witliin  the  inner  circle  a  cross 
voided,  on  it  a  trcssure  of  four  sides 
with  a  pellet  at  each  corner. 


+  nODflNE  ON  r,RAT 


1—2 


4 


IIAEOLD  I.  1035—1039. 


I.  Obv.    The  king's  head  filleted,  to 

the  left. 

+  IIAEOLD  REX 

II,  Obv.    The  king's  head  filleted,  to 

the  left,  with  a  sc'feptre. 


+  HAROLD  RELX 
+  NAROLD  REX 


JRev. 


A  cro3s  formed  of  four  ovals, 
issuing  from  a  centre  circle. 


+  j7VLFf  INE  ON  LRAN 

liev.  A  cross  voided,  extending  to  the 
edge  of  the  coin  ;  a  flower  in  each 
angle  issuing  from  a  compartment  in 
the  centre. 

+  iELF]7IN  ON  HRAN  (b.M.) 
+  f VLJ7INE  ON  RAT 


IIARTHACNUT.  1039—1042. 


Ohv.     The  king's  head   to  the  left     Eev.    A  cross  voided,  extending  to  the 
filleted,  with  a  sceptre.  inner  circle,  on  it  a  treasure  of  four 

sides  with  a  pellet  at  each  corner. 


+  HARDLNV 


+  ^LFfm  ON  TrRANT 


EDWARD  THE  COjSTFESSOE.    1042— lOGG. 


I.  Obv.    The  king's  kead  crowned  to 

the  left. 

+  EDJ7ERD  REX 

II.  Ohv.  The  king's  head,  full  face, 
bearded  and  crowned,  within  an  inner 
cli'cle. 

+  EADJ7ARD  RE 

III.  Obv.    The  king's  head  to  the 

left,  with  a  sceptre. 

+  EDf ERD  REX  A 

IV.  Ohv.   The  king's  head  to  the  left, 

with  sceptre. 


+  EDfARD  REX 


Ecv.    A  small  cross  within  the  inner 
circle, 

+  EDSTAN  ON  LRATE 

Rev.    A  small  cross  within  the  inner 
circle. 


+  J7VLFf I  ON  I/RANT 

Rev.  A  cross  voided,  extending  to  the 
inner  circle,  on  it  a  treasure  of  four 
sides,  with  three  pellets  at  o;\ch  angle. 

+  ETSTAN  ON  &RANTE 

Rev.  A  long  cross  voided,  extending 
to  the  edge  of  the  coin,  each  arm 
terminating  in  a  cr-sccnt  and  pellyt, 
in  the  centre  an  aniudet,  in  the  an- 
gles P-A-L-X. 

+  r.ODSYNV  ON  r.RA 


{ 

i 


5 


V.  Ohv.  The  king  seated  on  liis  throne, 

with  orb  and  sceptre. 

+  EADJ7AIID  REX  ANI^LO 
+      ANIrLOR 

VI.  Ohv.  The  king's  head  to  right 

mitred,  with  a  sc&ptre. 

+  EDf ERD  REX 

VII.  Ohv.  The  king's  bust  to  the  left, 

filleted. 

+  EDfERD  REX 


i?cn    A  cross  voided,  in  each  angle  a 
martlet. 

+  iELFj7m  ON  LRA  (b.M.) 
+  nODf  INE  ON  LRANT  (b.M.) 

JRev.  Within  an  inner  circle  a  cross 
voided  terminating  in  three  crescents  ; 
in  the  centre  an  aimulet. 

+  nODflNE  ON  r,RANT  (b.M.) 
Ilev.    Cross  voided  (small  size). 


+  ETSTAN  ON  tRA. 


(B.M.) 


HAROLD  II.  1066. 

Ohv.    The   king's   head  to  the  left,     Eev.  The  word  PAX  between  two  hnos, 
crowned  with  a  sceptre,  across  the  tiekl. 

HAROLD  REX  +  J7VLFj7I  ON  niiANTT  (b.M.) 


ii.  Anglo-Norman  Coins. 
WILLIAM  I.  1066—1087 


WILLIAM  II  1087—1100. 


Ohv.   Tlie  king's  bust  crowned,  front 
face,  with  a  sceptre. 


Bcv.  Plain  cross,  extending  to  the  inner 
circle  :  In  tlie  angles  the  letters  P-A- 
X-S,  each  within  a  small  circle. 


+  J7ILLELMVS  RE+ 


+  VLFLIL  ON  IrRANT 


II. 


THE  PEIVATE  COINAGES. 


i.    TliG  Private  ToJcens  of  the  xYiith  Century. 


(a)    The  Town  of  Cambridge. 

1.  I  AMES  .  ALDERS  =  A  lion  rampant. 

IN  .  CA]\rr,RiDCTE  ==  In  the  field  i .  A  :} 

James  Alders  was  one  of  the  Bailiffs  of  tlie  Corporation,  1653 — 1^57- 

2.  RICHARD  .  ALLEN  .  ROSE  =  A  Tuclor  rOSC. 

TAVERNE  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDG  =  In  the  field  ^\  J 
Ricliard  Allen  first  occnpicd  tlio  EoRO  Inn  in  1653. 

3.  lAMES  .  ANDERSON  =  A  lion  rampant. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =   {Boictcll)  :} 

4.  NICHOLAS  .  APTHORP  =  A  globe  on  a  stand. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  N  .  A  I 
Nicliolas  Apthorpe  was  appointed  common  councilman  in  1685. 

5.  JOHN  .  BIRD  .  1667  =  The  Merchant  Tailors'  Arms. 

OP  CAT^LDRiDGE  =  In  the  field  1667.  i 

The  Arms  are  A  royal  tent  between  two  robes,  on  chief  a  lion  passant. 

5.  a.  Cole  mentions  one  of  John  Bird,  1GG7,  bearing  a  fess 
between  three  birds. 

6.  JOHN  .  BLACKLY .  BAKER  =  The  Bakers'  Arms  ;  no  inner 
circle. 

IN  CA]\i.Bi^iDGE  =  In  the  field  j-^^^  i 

The  Arms  are  A  IkiIuucc  between  three  garbcs,  on  a  chief  barry  wavy  of  four. 


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f  7.    JONATHAN  .  BROWNE.  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN .  CAMBRIDGE.  =  In  the  field  lo^.  ^  in  monogram.  ^ 
8.    WILL  .  BRYAN  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDG  =  Three  cloves. 

CONFECTIONER  .  1652  =  In  the  field  i 

William  Bryan  was  Mayor  in  1650  and  1657.    He  was  displaced  from  beiug 
Alderman  in  1662.    Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  503.    He  died  1690. 

'  9.    I .  B  .  VNDER  .  THE  .  ROASE  =  The  Bakcrs'  Arms. 

IN  CAMBRIDGE:  =  In  the  field  i^E  i 

A  Mr  Bryan  died  at  the  Rose  in  1652,  and  his  widow  was  succeeded  by 
;  Rich.  Allen  in  1653.    Tlie  Rose  was  the  starting  point  of  the  London  stage  coach 

from  1655.    i^ose  crescent  now  occupies  the  site  of  its  yard. 

10.    EDWARD  .  ciiALLis:  =  The  Haberdashers'  Arras. 

IN  CAMBRIDG  .  16G3  =  In  the  field  E  .  c  I 

r  The  Arms  are  Barry  nebuly  of  4,  a  lion  passant  gardant  on  a  bund  doxtcr. 

10.  a,    A  variety  has  the  initials  E  .  C  larger. 

11.  FRANCIS  .  CHALLIS  =  A  broche  of  5  candles. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1G53  =  In  the  field  F  .  c  I 

l  Francis  Challis  was  elected  Alderman  iu  1655,  ^^^^  refused  the  office.  Cooper, 

Ann.  iii.  463. 

I  12.    lOiiN  .  CHAPLYN  =  A  broche  of  8  candles. 

;  IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  i%i  J 

I  13.    lOiiN  .  ciiAPLYN  —  x\  broche  of  7  candles. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1GG7  =  In  the  field  i^:^t         •  J 

He  was  common  councilman  till  1685  (Cooper,  A7in.  iii.  605), 

t  14.    ED  .  CLARK  .  HABERDASHER  =  The  Haberdashers'  Arms. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1652  =  In  the  field  e^a  i 

\  The  Arms  are  not  quite  correct,  being  Semd  of  roundlets  (instead  of  being  harry 

(  nebulae),  per  bend  dexter  a  lion  passant  gardaiit, 

'  14  a.    A  variety  has  for  the  ronndlets  tears,  tlius  coming 

near  to  the  true  representation  of  the  arms. 

14  h.    Cole  mentions  one  of  Ed.  Clark  of  the  date  1G54. 
14  c.    Bowtell  and  Cole  describe  one  of  Ed.  Clark,  witli  tlic 
legend  as  in  No.  14,  but  the  date  IGGl,  and  the  arms  correct. 
15.    PETJ':i:  .  COLLINS  .  IN  =  A  hand  hohling  a  glove;  no 
inner  circle. 

CA_M BRIDGE  .  1G5G  ~  In  the  field  w.  M  J 


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16.  EICHARD  .  COOKE  .  AT  .  PEASE  =  In  tlirec  lincs   HIS  i 

HALFE  I  PENY 

HILL  .  IN  .  CAMBiiiDG.    16G9  =  A  Talbot  passant.  ^ 

17.  lOilN  .  CEASKE  .  OF :  =  The  Grocers'  Avitif^. 
CAMBRIDGE  .  1667 :  =In  three  lines  his  |  half  \  peny 

Below  i 

The  Arms  are  Argent;',  a  chevron  between  nine  cloves,  in  groups  of  tlirce,  sahle. 

18.  THOMAS  .  DARRANT  =  iV  griffin  passant ;  no  iinier  ch-cle. 
IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  t\  J 

rj.     lOHX  .  DOD  .  AT  .  TIIIi:  .  RKD  .  HART  =  A  hart  lodged ; 
over  its  back  1G67. 
AND  .  antelop  .  IN  .  CAMBRLDG  =  An  Antelopc,  and 
under  it   His  -h-  l- 

The  Red  Hart  Inn  was  in  Petty  Cury  on  the  site  of  the  new  buildings 
belonging  to  Corpus  Christ!  college. 

20.  lOHN  .  kwin  .  IN  =  Man  dipping  candles ;    no  inner 

circle. 

CAMBRIDG  .  1652  =  In  the  lielcl  i^.^^  i 

John  Ewiu  v/as  elected  Alderman  in  1655,  but  refused  the  office.  He  was 
Mayor  in  1659--60,  and  proclaimed  King  Charles  II.  on  11  May.  Cooper, 
Ann.  iii.  463,  478. 

21.  THOMAS  .  EWIN  .  IN  —  A  man  dipping  candles. 
CAMBRIDGE  .  1668.=  In  three  lines  His  |  half  |  peny 

and  below  rjy\  h 

Thomas  Ewin  was  Mayor  in  1679,  1^9°?  ^^^^^^  1699. 

22.  AT  .  THE  .  MITER  .  IN  =  A  mitre ;  no  inner  circle. 
CA^rBRTDGE.   1 G51  =  In  field  e'^e 

Cooper,  A)in.  iii.  265.  'The  Mitre  tavern  in  Trumpington  Street  in  St 
Edward's  paiisli,  now  the- private  dwelling  of  Mr  Parish,  surgeon.'  Jl'.wtcU. 

This  house  stood  where  the  church  of  St  John  Zachary  formerly  stood,  v/hich 
was  pulled  down  to  make  way  for  King's  college  (Hlomefield,  Collect.  Cantab.  212). 
It  was  on  the  site  of  King's  college  screen,  south  of  the  gateway. 

23.  GEORGE  .  FELLSTKD  =  Two  pestlcs  in  a  mortar;  no 

iinier  circle. 

IN  .  CA^■  :!laDGE.  r=  In  the  field  q.a  -1 

George  Felsltcd  vwu,  diyplaeed  from  being  councilman  in  1662. 


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24.  THOMAS  .  FELSTED  =  The  Bakers'  Arms ;    no  inner 

circle. 

IN  .  CAMBKIDG  .  1GG4  =  In  tlie  field  t^d  .} 

25.  Tiio.MAS  .  FENN  =  A  woolpack  ;  no  ii)ner  circle. 

OF  .  CAiLBEIDGE  =  In  tlie  field  T  .  F  -1 

26.  lOHN  .  FINCH  .  MAR :  —  In  the  field  i .  F 

KET  .  PLAdE  .  CAMBIU.  =  In  the  field  I  .  F  I 
Probably  on  the  site  of  the  shop  of  jNIessrs  Hun-ell  and  Beales,  ironmongers. 

27.  THO  .  FOX  .  AT  .  THE  .  BLACK  =  A  bull ;  no  inner  circle. 

BVLL  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDCiE  =  In  tlie  field   T  .  F  J 
Tho.  Fox  was  Mayor  in  i6So,  1694  and  1707.  Hu  died  1710.    The  Black  Bull 
is  now  the  Bull  near  St  Catharine's  college. 

28.  lOHX  .  FROHOCK  =  A  Shield  of  Arms  :  no  inner  eirclc. 
IN  .  CA^IBRIDG  .  IGGO  =  In  the  field  i^'^  i 

He  was  displaced  from  being  councilmau  in  1662,  A  John  Frolioclc  was  Mayor 
in  1703, 

Tlie  arms  are  On  a  chevron  bet^veen  three  leopards'  fiLices,  as  many  trefoils. 

29.  In  five  lines  will  .  |  gorham  .  ]  of  .  camb  |  grocer  | 

A  shield  of  Arms;  a  fess  between  three  matches;  crest, 
on  a  ducal  coronet  a  lamp  of  three  branches.  -J 

The  Arms  of  Leete  of  Kingston  Cambridgeshire,  differing  in  having  three  in 
place  of  two  matches. 

30.  FRANCIS  .  iia]MPSON  =  Two  tobacco-pipes  lying  trans- 

versely upon  a  grate. 
IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  1GG7.  J 

31.  ROBERT  .  HARWOOD  =  In  the  field  i"c 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1GG0==  In  tlic  field  ii^c  i 
Cole  gives  the  name  as  Eichard  Harwood. 

32.  lAMES  .  HAWKE  .  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  In  the  field  i\  -J- 

33.  A  variety  has  the  date  1GG7  on  the  rev.  i 

34.  lOSEBH  .  HEATH  .  OF  =  A  Sliicld  of  Arms. 
ca:\ibridge  .  16GG  =  In  the  field  i"h  -] 

Joseph  Heath  'a:>s  appointed  common  councilman  by  the  new  charter  of  1685. 
(Cooper  A  nn.  iii.  C  - 1. 

The  Arms  arc  I'cr  chevron,  in  chief  two  mullets,  in  ba.se,  a  hcatlicock. 


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35.  ELIZEBETIT  .  HOQHTON  =  In  the  field  E  .  n 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  E  .  II  } 

36.  EDWARD .  lENNiNGS  =  A  broche  of  5  candles  ;  no  inner 

circle. 

OF  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  e  .  i  J 

37.  FRANCIS  .  lERMAN  .  =The  Groccrs'  Arms. 

OF  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  16G7  =  In  three  lines  iiis :  [  IIALFE  | 

PENNY  l- 
Francis  Jermin  was  treasurer  in  1662-63,  and  mayor  in  1678,  1696  and  1697. 

38.  STEFIIEN  .  lOIINSON  .  OF  =  A  hart. 

CAMBRiDG  .  1GG9  =  In  the  field  g^v  J 

39.  lOSEPn  LINSEY  =  A  two-headed  eagle  displayed. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1663=  In  three  lines  nis  |  UALF  | 

PENY.  J 

He  died  1665.  Blomefield,  Collect.  Cantab.  6r. 

39.  a.  A  variety  with  tlie  same  inscription  and  device  in 
all  respects,  except  tliat  there  is  an  E  at  the  end  of  half  on  the 
reverse,  and  the  whole  is  worse  executed.  |- 

40.  SAMVELL  .  LONG  .  AT  .  THE  =  A  pot  of  lilies. 

LILLY  .  POT  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  \ 

41.  '  lOIIN  .  LOWRY  .  OF  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  HIS  .  HALFE  .  PENY. 

1657  .  encircling  a  bust  of  his  patron  Oliver  Cromwell. 
Tliis  token  is  rather  singular,  being  struck  in  cameo, 
that  is  to  say,  the  letters  &c.  are  indented  instead  of 
mtagh'o,  or  cut  in  relief,  as  coins  are  in  general,' 

{BoiotelT)  h 

'  Jolm  Lowry  is  said  to  have  issued  a  halfpenny  in  1657.  I  have  never  n^ot 
with  it,  and  doubt  its  existence.  There  were  a  few  halfpennies  sti"uck  before  the 
Eestoration,  but  they  are  scarce.' — Boyne.  John  Lowry  was  Mayor  1644  and 
M.P,  for  Cambi'idge  in  1658.    Cooper,  A  nn.  iii.  472. 

42.  CHRISTOFER  .  MAIES  =  A  brocliG  of  5  candlcs. 

IN  .  CA:\ruiiDGE  =  In  the  field  CM  ] 

Christopher  Mayes  was  elected  alderman  in  1655,  but  refused  the  oIBce. 
Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  463. 


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43.  10 HN  .  MARSTON  .  IN  TRUMP.  =  A  hand  issuing  out  of 

clouds  and  pouring  coffee  out  of  a  coffee  pot 
into  a  cup,  3  other  cups  by  the  side  on  a  tahle. 
INGTON  .  STREET  .  CAMBR  =  In  three  lines  uis  ]  ualfe  I 

PENNY.  I 

44.  OWEN  MAYFIELD  =  A  mitre  ;  no  inner  circle. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDG  .  1658  =  In  the  field  o^s  i 

Owen  Mayfield  was  a  vintner  and  lived  at  the  ]\Iitre  Inn  (sec  n°  11).  lie 
was  mayor  in  1672.  He  died  in  1686,  aged  59  years,  and  is  buried  in  St  Edward's 
church  in  Cambridge.  Blomefield,  Collect.  82.  His  will  is  in  MS.  Baker  xxxvii. 
p.  451  fF.     Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  515,  517. 

45.  10 HN  .  NEWTON  .  IN  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 
CAMBRIDG  .  1652  =  In  the  field  { 

John  Newton  was  treasurer  of  the  town  in  1657.    Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  466. 

46.  lOliN  .  NICKLES  .  AT  .  BLEY/  =  An  anclior. 

MARKET  .  HILL  .  CAMBRIDG  =  In  the  fiekl  f^i  -} 
The  Blue  Anchor  was  behind  the  town  hall,  where  the  town  clerk's  offices 
now  are. 

47.  JOHN  .  PECKE  .  1668  =  The  Bakers'  Arras. 

OF .  CAMBRIDGE  . .  =  In  three  lines  ms  |  half  |  peny; 
below  ijii  i 

48.  SANDIS  .  PEYTON  =  Shield  of  Arms  and  Crest ;  no  inner 

circle. 

IN  .  CAMBRRIDGE  =  In  the  field  s^M  i 
Sandis  Peyton  died  1682,  and  was  buried  in  St  Benedict's  church.    He  be- 
longed to  the  family  of  the  Peytons  of  Islehara.    Blomefield,  Collect.  47. 

The  Arms  on  this  token  are  On  a  cross  engrailed  a  mullet,  a  boi  dure  billotte ; 
those  of  the  Peyton  family  are  Sa.  a  cross  engrailed  or,  in  the  second  quarter  a 
mullet  or.    The  crest  is  a  griffin  sejant,  on  a  helmet. 

49.  lAMES  .  POTTER  =  In  the  field  1GG7. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDG  =  In  the  field  i^e  4 

50.  'THOMAS  .  POWELL  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  HIS  .  KALFPEXY. 

T^E.  1G65  .  Sign  a  bunch  of  grapes.'  {JOowtell)  J 

51.  THOMAS  .  POWELL  .  IN  =  Checkers. 

CAMiauDGE.  1666=  In  three  lines  His  |  half  |  penyI; 

below  T.E 
51  a.    A  variety  reads  1666  : 


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52.  AlsooflG67. 

53.  IIENERY  .  RAPEK  .  IN=  In  tlie  field 

CAMBiiiDG  .  GiiOCER      A  sugar-loaf;  lio  inner  circle.  \ 

54.  IIENERY  .  RAPER  .  IN  =  In  tlie  field  ii'yi^ 

IN  CAMBRIDQE  .  IGGO  =  A  pair  of  slicars ;  no  inner 
circle.  -J 

55.  I  RANCIS  .  RYSSELL  =  Arms  of  the  Eussell  family ;  a 

lion  rampant  witliin  a  bordnre,  crest  a  demi- 
goat ;  no  inner  circle. 

CAMBRIDGE  .  16G3  =  In  tlie  field  ^\  -J 

56.  HENERY  .  SMITH  =  The  Haberdashers'  Arms. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  =  In  the  field  i 

57.  WILLIAM  .  SMITH  =  The  LeatherscUers'  Arms. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1G70  =  In  three  lines  iiis  |  HALF  j 
PENY;  below  w'^e  i 

The  Arms  are  Three  stags  regardant  tripphig. 

58.  lOHN  .  SPARKES  .  BAKER  ±=  The  Bakcrs'  Arms. 

IN  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  1G53=  In  the  field  i^m  ■} 

59.  BENJAMIN  .  SPENCE  .  16G8  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF  .  CAMBRIDGE  .  CHANDLER  =  In  three  lines  HIS  i 
HALF  1  PENY.  ^ 

60.  lOSEPil  .  TIFFORD  .  IN  =  Three  cloves. 
CAMBRIDGE  .  1659  =  In  the  field  i .  T  I 

61.  WILL  .  ^YATERSON  .  OF  =  In  the  field 

CAMBRIDG  .  CARYER  =  In  the  field   E.  \Y  -4 
Waterson  mentioned  in  a  letter  of  John  Strype.    Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  504. 

62.  WILLIAM  .  ^yELLS  .  3  .  TVNS  =  Three  tuns. 

TAVERN  .  IN  .  CAMBRIDG  =  In  the  field  \vls  i. 

William  Wells  was  •u.i)ointed  Alderman  in  1662,  and  was  mayor  in  that  year. 
'A  famous  tavern  ou  the  Market  iiill,  near  St  Edward's  cluirchyanl.  Part 
it  is  still  an  ale-house  with  the  same  sign.'    Cooper,  Ann.  iii.  47^5  C')- 


Il 


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03.    PHILIP  .  WILLIAMS  =  The  Bakers'  Arms;   no  inner 
circle. 

OF  .  CA^iBRiDGE  =  In  the  field  p\  j 

Philip  Williams  was  treasurer  of  the  town  in  1658  and  mayor  in  16*^9. 


(Jj)    TiTE  County  of  Cambridge. 
Abington. 

The  tokens  attributed  to  this  village  by  Prof.  Babingtou, 
are  given  to  Abingdon  Berkshire  by  Boyne. 

Arrington. 

1.    HENEY  .  ATKINS  .  AT  .  "THE  =  A  four-pointed  direction- 
post  or  turnstile. 
AT  .  ARRINGTON  .  BRIDGE  =  In  three  lines  his  \  half  I 

PENY  1  .  .  V 

BOURNE. 

The  halfpenny  token  of  William  Birridge  mercer  1GG4  of 
Bourne  is  given  with  others  to  Bourn  Lincolnshire,  by  Boyne. 

Brinkley. 

1.    JOHN  .  GROAYSE  =  The  Tallow-chandlers'  Arms. 

IN  brinkley  =  In  field  i%i  i 

BURWELL. 

1.    OLIVER  .  IIARLIE  =  The  Haberdashers'  Arms. 

IN  .  BURWELL  =  In  field  oj\i  i 
Caxton. 

1.  HVGH  .  CONNY  .  OF  .  CAXTON  &  ELSWORTH  =  ThrCC  COnics 

or  rabbits. 

HIS  .  HALFE  .  PENY  =  In  the  field  ^,5G?  i 

2.  ROBEKT  MILLARD  BAKER       A  pie  crUSt 

OF     (  ^x>ON  .  16G8  =  In  three  lines  HIS  |  halfe  | 

1 

^  I'ENNY. 


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Chatteris. 

1.  THOMAS  .  COAPE  .  AT  .  THE  =  A  gate. 

AT  .  CHATTKIS  .  FERREY   =  111   foiir   lines  HIS  |  HALF  | 
PENY  I    1670.  }j 

2.  THOMAS  DRING  OF  CIIATERIS  =  In  ficlcl  HIS  HALF  PENV. 
IN  .  THE  .  ISLE..  OF  .  ELY  .  1G67  =  In  field  i 

3.  wiLLTA^r  .  SMITH  .  OF  =  A  cooper  making  a  cask. 
CHATiiis  .  1670  =In  three  lines  iiis  |  halfe  |  penny.  ^- 

CliESTERTON. 
1.    WILLIAM  .  LIMBER  =:  A  liavt  trippant. 

IN  .  CHESTERTON.  =  In  the  field  ^v'-^D  i 

Cottenham. 

1.    PHILIP  CHAJ.IBERS  =  In  three  lines  nis  |  half  |  peny. 
IN  COTTENHAM  1668  =  A  wild  man  with  club  over  his 

shoulder.  i 

DODDINGTON. 

1.  ROBERT  ADAJ.rs  1668  =  In  field  iiis  halfpeny. 
OF  DOODINGTON  =  In  field  R  .  A.    (Sce  March). 

2.  lOHN  .  lOliNSON  =  A  windmill. 

OF  .  DODDINGTON  .  1669  ==  In  tlircc  lines  iiis  |  half  1 
peny.  i 

There  are  many  jjlaces  called  Docklington.  {Boync.) 

Elswortii,  see  Caxton. 

Eltisley. 

1.    ISAAC  .  DES  =  A  shield  of  arms. 

0F.ELTESLEY.16...  =  In  field       (llev.  W.  G.  Seurle)  i 

Ely. 

1.  HENRY  .  AUSTIN  .  IN  =^  A  shuttle. 

ELY  .  WEAVER  .  1667  =  In  field  H.  a'  i 

2.  THOMAS  .  CIIADRTON  .  AT  =  A  SWan. 

THE  .  Will']'!  -  .  SWAN  .  IN  .  ELY  =  111  field   t^^^  -J 

3.  LUKE  .  ci.(  »'J!:S0N  .  —  A  broche  of  7  candles. 

IN  .  ELEY  ^  In  the  field  ^ 


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4.    CORNELivs  .  FVLLER  =  The  Haberdashers'  Arms. 

IN  .  ELY  .  1654  =  In  the  field  c .  F  J 

4  a.  There  is  another  of  the  same  person  and  date,  with 
the  name  spelled  cornllvs,  and  the  arms  incorrectly  engraved, 
so  as  to  appear  to  be  Seme  of  roundlcts,  per  bend  dexter  a  lion 
passant  gardant  ' 


lOHN 


KNOWLS  .  AT  .  THE  =  A  ship. 


IN  .  ELY  .  1667  .  =  In  the  field  i\  i 


6.  THOMAS  LENSLEY  =  A  pie  crust? 

IN  .  ELEY.  1664  =  In  field  t^a  { 

7.  WILLLVM  .  LETTEN  =  A  crowned  rose. 

AT  .  ROSE  .  &  .  CROWN  IN  ELY  =  In  field   v,'"^K  { 

8.  NICHOLAS  .  MALLABER        A  Woolpack. 

AT  .  ELLY  .  1658  =  In  the  field  n  .  M  I 

9.  WILLIAM  .  MARSH  =  A  pair  of  scales. 

GROCER  .  OF  .  ELY  =  In  the  field  w  .  I*r  I 

10.  TiiOaAiAS  .  PORTER  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  ELY  .  1663  =  In  the  field  T  .  P  ^ 

11.  lOHN  .  READE  .  IN  .  ELY  =  The  Fishmongers'  Ai-ms. 
GROCER  .  1656  =  In  the  field  I.  R  |- 

These  arms  are  a  form  of  those  of  the  Fishmongers'  CompHny  ;  they  are,  Three 
fishes  in  pale,  in  cliief  three  of  stockfish  saltires. 

12.  RALPH  .  SKITTAR  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  ELY  .  1659  =  In  the  field  r.^m  i 

13.  Yn^lliam  .  TANNER  =  An  irregular  star  of  six  rays. 

IN  .  ELY  .  BREWER  =  In  the  field  w'^M  :} 

14.  WILLIAM  .  TVCKINTON  =  A  broche  of  8  candles. 

IN  .  ELY  .  CHANDLER  =  In  the  field  W .  T  I 

15.  WILL  .  TYRKINTON  .  =  A  broche  of  8  candles. 

OF  .  ELY  .  1661  =  In  the  field  w.  T  J 

16.  WILLI. •\^^  .  WAGSTAFE  =  The  Fishmongers'  Arms. 
MERCEii  .  OF  .  ELIE  =  In  the  field  lozengy  of  Vs,  forni- 

'ug  a  cypher  consisting  of  2  W;  no  inner  circle.  I 


16 


17.    WILLIAM  .  WAGSTAFE  =  Arms  of  the  Wag-Staff  family' 
in  a  heart-sliaped  sliield ;  two  bends  raguly 
in  chief  an  escallop  shell. 
MERCER  .  OF  .  ELY  =  Device  as  last.  -] 


18.    JOHN  WEATHERiiEAD  =  The  Bakers'  A 


rms. 


IN  .  ELY  .  BAKER  .  1666  =  In  field  i\  -J 


Ford  HAM. 

1.    JOHN  .  BADCOCK  =  Tlie  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  FORDHAM  .  1667  =  In  the  field  i .  B  } 

By  Boyne  attributed  to  Fortlham,  Norfolk. 

Gamlingay. 

1.  STEPHEN  .  APTiiORPE  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF  .  GAMLINGHAY  =  In  two  lines  1C59  -J 

2.  STEPHEN  .  APTIIORPE  =  Groccrs'  Arms. 

OF  .  GAMLINGAMS  :  =  In  two  lines  iogg  i 

3.  lOSEPil .  IIARVTE  .  IN  .  1667.  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 
GAMLINGAY  .  HIS  .  HALF  .  PENY  =  In  the  field   i\  I 

Haddenham. 

1.    JOHN  .  MORFIELD  .  OF  =  A  man  walking. 

HADDENHAM  .  CARRIER  In  the  field  I  .  M  J- 
By  Boyne  attributed  to  Haddenham,  Bucks. 


HiNXTON. 

1.    lOHN  .  NORTH  .  1667  =  The  Grocers'  Arms  and  i .  N 
IN  .  IIINKSTON  =  In  three  lines  iiis  |  half  |  pi^ny.  ^■ 

HlSTON. 

1.    ciiRlSTOr  :  CHALICE  =  A  fleece  suspended  ;  below^  1670. 
OF  .  HISTON  r=  In  the  field  c  .  C  (Kcv.  W.  G.  Scarle)  {■ 


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IIOCKINGTON. 
OCKIXGTON  .  1657  =  Id  the  field 
HIS  I  IIALFE  I  PENNY=Iii  tliroc  lines  across  the  field. 

Tills  is  an  early  date  for  a  half-penny.  jBoTjne. 

ICKLETON. 
GEORGE  .  FOiiDHAM.  =  The  field  blank. 

ICKLTON  .  CAMBRIDGSH  =  111  the  field   G  .  F 
ISELIIAM. 

rxOBEiiT  .  MOODEY  .  =  The  xMercers'  Arms. 
IN  .  LSELEHAM  .  1664  =  111  the  field  r^g 

Linton. 

lOiiN  .  BITTIN  .  OF  =  A  griffiii  rampant. 
LINTON  .  1657  =  A  grifKn  rampant. 

ROBERT  .  HALLS  .  1667  =  A  pair  of  scales. 

IN  .  LINTON  .  CAMBiiiDGSii  =  In   three   Hues  ii 

HALFE  I  PENY. 

lOiiN  .  IIARVY  .  OF  =  A  brochf^  of  6  candles. 
LINTON  .  CHANDLER  =  In  the  field  lis 

ROBERT  MOORE  =  The  Grocers'  xVrms. 
OF  .  LYNDON  .  1667  =  In  tJie  field  R .  M 

LlTTLEPORT. 

Y^  OVERSEERS  .  OF  .  Y^  POOR  =  In  the  field  1668. 
LITTLE  .  PORT  .  ILE  .  OF  ELY  =  In  tlie  field  a  key. 

March. 

ROBER'I^  .  ADAMS  .  OF  .  MARCH  =  In  field    R  .  A 

AND.  '>f!)rNGTON  1670  =*  A  broclie  of  candles. 

THOMAS  .  HARRYSON  .  IN  =  In  tliC  field  r/^I 
MARCH  .  liABERDASHER.  =  111  the  field  16''>7 

9 


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3.  THOMAS  .  HARRISON  =  In  three  lines  nis  1  half  [  teny. 
OF  .  mairch  .  1669  =  In  field  t\  J 

4.  lOHN.  INGROM  .  OF  .  MARCH  ==  In  the  field  1G6G 

IN  .  THE  .  ISLE  .  OF  .  ELY  =  In  the  field  I.I  I 

5.  ROBERT  .  NEALE  .  IN  =  The  Grocei's'  Arms. 

MARCH  .  GROCER  .  1656  =  In  the  field  R.N  J 

6.  THOMAS  .  TOWERS  ==.A  tOWer. 

IN  .  MARCH  .  1669  =  In  three  lines  HIS  |  HALF  |  pexy.  -J 


Newmarket. 

The  tokens  bearing  the  name  of  this  town  are  placed  hj 
Boyne  among  the  Suffolk  tokens  ;  however,  as  one  of  the  two 
parishes  of  Newmarket  is  in  this  county  and  the  portion  of 
Suffolk  in  which  the  other  parish  stands  is  surrounded  Ly 
Cambridgeshire,  ■  they  are  all  placed  here. 

1.  WILLIAM  .  BRIAN T  .  IN  =  In  three  lines  iiis  |  half  | 

peny. 

NEWMARKET  .  1669  =  In  the  field  ^''^m  i 

2.  WILLIAM  BRYANT  =  The  Grocers'  Arms.  I 
OF  NEWMARKET  1659  =  In  the  field  ^v'^m 

The  Bryant  family  are  still  found  at  Newmarket  (Boyne). 

3.  HENRY  .  FRANCIS  .  AT  .  THE  2  .  KINGS  ==  A  Still  bctwcen 

two  kings,  crowned,  standing,  holding  sceptres. 
AND   STILL    IN    NEAV   MARKET   67  =  In  three  lines 

HIS  I  IIALFE  I  FENY.     BeloW  h-^e  i 
Placed  by  Boyne  at  Clare  Market,  London. 

4.  AT  THE  3  TUNS  =  Three  tuns. 

IN  NEWMARKET  —  In  tllC  field   I  .  H  { 


5. 


JOHN  Hl'NDERSON  AT  THE  =  A  sllip. 

SHiPP  IX   NEWMARKET  =  In  three  lines  iiis  |  half  | 

PENY.  i 


I 


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6.  ROBERT  MYNN  AT       GOLDEN  =  An  anclior  and  R  .  M. 
ANCHOR     IN      NEWMARKET  =  In    three    lines     IIRS  I 

HALFE  ]  PENNY.  ^ 

7.  WALTER  .  POULTER  .  AT  .  THE  =  Qtieen  s  head. 

IN  .  NEW  MARKET  .  IN  SUFFOLK  =  In  four  liues  HIS  1 
HALFE  I  P'ENNY  |  1G69.  l 

8.  THOIMAS  PRATT  =  A  sllip. 

IN  NEWMARKETT  =  In  field  J 

9.  WILL.  WATTE  .  IN  .  =  A  stick  of  candles.  1657. 

NEW  .  MARKETT  =  In  field  W  .  W  J 

As  Clare  Market,  London,  is  called  New  Market  on  the  tokens,  it  is 
doubtful  whetlier  all  the  above  belong  to  this  toym. 

EOYSTON. 

Although  a  small  part  of  this  parish  lies  in  Cambridgeshire, 
yet  the  town  itself  lies  in  Hertfordshire. 

SoHAM. 

1.  ROB  .  CROW  .  OF  .  SOHAM  .  BAKER.  =  In  three  lincs  A  I 

HALFE  I  PENY. 

IN  .  CAMBRiDGSUEAR  .  1G71  =  The  Bakers'  Arms.  ^- 

c 

2.  Same  inscription  =  A  lion  rampant  r.p 

Same  reverse.  i 

3.  THOMAS  .  TROWELL  =  A  hroclie  of  candles. 

IN  .  SOIIAM  .  1664  =  In  field  i 

SOIIAM  AND  HORNSWELL. 
1.     MARY  .  KENT  .  OF  .  SOHAM  =  In  the  field   M  .  K 

lOHN  .  KENT  .  OF  .  IIORNSWELL  =  In  the  field   5ooa  i 

SWAPFIIAM. 

1.    ROBERT  .  DENTON  .  OF  =  A  broche  of  5  candlcs. 

SWAF.1 1 A  .^^  .  1660  =  In  the  field  pv^A  i 

It  is  not  imprwiu^blc  that  this  token,  although  found  near  Cambridge,  may  have 
been  issued  at  Swali'aam  Norfolk,  to  which  town  it  is  ascribed  by  Boyno. 

2—2 


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SWAFFHAM  BULBECK. 
1.     WILLIAM  .  COE  .  OF       A  WOolpack. 

SWAFFHAM  .  BULBECK  =  In  field    W  .  C 


SWAVESEY. 

1.    WILLIAM  .  BVRTEN  =  In  the  field  w^S 

AT  .  SWASEY  .  1656  =  In  the  field  i* 

Thorney. 

1.    EDWARD  .  TAYLOR  =  The  Bakers'  Arms. 

IxN  .  THORNEY  .  ABBY  =  In  the  field   E  .  T  J 

"Whittlesey. 

1.  THOMAS  .  DAVIE  .  1668  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF  .  wiTTLESEY  =  In  three  lines  His  |  half  |  fenny. 
Below  ^ 

2.  THOMAS  .  DAVIE  .  OF  =  In  the  field  W  .  D 
WITTLESEY  .  1668  =  In  the  field  w .  D  J 

3.  JOHN  .  FADES  —  Tlie  Bakcrs'  Arms. 

OF  .  WHITTLESEY  .  1657  ==  lu  field   I  .  E  J 

4.  ROBERT  .  IVES  .  1667  =  A  woolcomb. 

OF  .  W^HITTLESEY=  In  the  field  R^i  I 

5.  ROBERT  .  IVES  =  A  woolcomb  incorrectly  drawn. 

OF  .  WHITTLESEY  =  In  the  field  r^i  i 

6.  GEORGE  .  LAMBE  =  The  Groccrs'  Arms. 

OF  .  WHITELLSEY  =  In  field   G  .  L  •       '     ■  } 

7.  AVILLIAM  .  SEARLE  .  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF .  WHITTLESEY  =  In  the  field  w .  S  i 

WlLBRAHAM  (LiTTLE). 

1,    JOHN  .  TVkXER  .  IN  =  In  field  1666. 

LITTLE  .  WILBRAM  =  In  field   I'^s  ^ 


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WiSBEACII. 

1.  lOiiN  .  BELLAMY  .  1667  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF  .  WLSBICH  .  GROCER  =  In  three  lines  iiis  |  ilvlfe  | 
PENNY;   below  i^^^  ^- 

2.  lOHN  .  BELLAMY  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  WISBICH  .  1665.=  In  the  field  J 

3.  lOiiN  .  BELLAMY  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  .  WISBICII .  1667=  In  the  field  i\  { 

*He  was  Town  Bailiflf  in  1682:  the  family  still  remain.-:  at  Wisbeach.' — 

4.  HENRY  .  COLDWELL  .  1668  =  The  Haherdasliers'  Arms, 
i^.  WISBIDG  .  HABERDASHER  =  In  three  Imes  iiis  |  ualf\ 

PENY.  ^- 
William  Coldwell  was  Vicar  of  Wisbeacli  1651 — 170?. 

5.  lOiiN  .  FINCH  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

OF  .  WISBECH  .  1666  =  In  the  field  i .  F  J 

G.    RICHARD  .  HARRISON  =  The  Ilaberdasliers'  Arms. 

OF  .  AYISBICH  .  16G-1  =  In  field  R  .  H  J 

7.  JOHN  MOYES  1664  =  The  Grocers'  Arms. 

IN  WISBECH  =  In  field  i^ji  i 

8.  ANTHONY  .  RACHELL  =  A  COg  wheel.  ■ 

IN  .  wiSBECHE  .  1667  =  In  the  field  i 

9.  HENRY  .  TVNARD  .  OF  =  The  Bakers'  Arms. 
WISBITCH  .  1657  =  In  field  h.i  i 

10.  Also  of  1662,  reading  tinard.  i 

11.  Also  of  1663.  i 


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ii.    TJie  Private  Tokens  of  the  XNiiitli  and 
xixth  Centuries. 


As  before.  Id. 


(a)    The  Town  of  Cajibridge. 

1.  Ohv.   CHRIST  .  coLLECxE  .  GATE.  CHAMB.  =  The  collcge  gate- 

way;  below  JAcobs. 
Bev.    BRITISH  PENNY.    In  exergue,  1797.=A  large  globe,  on 

which  the  word  BRITAIN  is  visible,  between  a  small 

thistle  and  a  small  rose. 
Edge.     I   PROMISE    TO    PAY    ON    DEMAND    THE   BEARER  ONE 

PENNY.  Id. 

2.  Ohv,    EMANUEL  .  COLLEGE  .  CHAPEL.    In  exergue,  CA^IB.  = 

The  facade  of  the  college  chapel ;  below  JacoI^. 

JRev,  ] 
Edge.] 

3.  Ohv.    KINGS  .  COLLEGE .  CHAJ'EL.    In  exergne,  CA^IBRIDGE. 

=The  west  end  of  the  chapel ;  below  jAcobs. 

'^^j'  \  As  before.  Id. 
Edge.) 

4.  Ohv.     TRINITY  .  COLLEGE  .  GATE.     In  exerglie,  CAMB.  A.D. 

1546  =  The  college  gateway;  below  JAcobs. 

'  I  As  before.  Id. 
Edge.) 

5.  Ohv.    BISHOPS  HOSTELL,  CAMB.  A.D.  1670,=  The  front  view 

of  Bishop's  Hostel,  Trinity  College. 

I  As  before.  Id. 
Edge.) 

6.  Ohv.    QUEENS  COLL.  GATE  CAMB.  =  The  college  gateway ; 

below  JAcobs. 

Eev.    MIDDLESEX  PENNY.=A  portcullis  and  scales,  between 

sprig.^  of  oak  and  laurel. 
Edge.  As  before.  ^d- 


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7.  Ohv.     TRIxNITY  COLL.  LIBRARY  CAMB.  =  View  of  tllC  college 

library;  below  JAcobs. 

8.  Ohv.     TO  .  THE  .  HEADS  AND  STUDENTS   OF  .  THE  .  UNI- 

VERSITY .-  OF  .  CAMBRIDGE.    In  exergiie,  king's  coll. 
CHAPEL  ;  below,  JAcobs.  =  South  view  of  tlie  chapel. 
Rev.     THIS  .  MEDAL  .  IS  .  HUMBLY  .  INSCRIBED  .  BY  .  THEIR  . 

OBEDIENT  .  HUMBLE  .  SER'^  .  D.  HOOD.  =  Tlie  fcUows' 
building  of  King's  college.  In  a  circle  above  and 
below  it :  west  .  front  .  of  .  the  .  new  .  building  . 
KINGS  COLL.    In  exergue,  JAcobs  and  1796. 

Diara.  in. 

David  Hood  lived  in  Market  street ;  he  was  an  ingenious  man,  and  invented 
a  hydraulic  machine  to  drain  the  fens.  He  sold  looking-glasses  and  likewise  silvered 
them  :  he  was  also  a  house -decorator.  He  had  a  dispute  with  Ilarraden  the 
engraver  (Camh.  Chron.  io,  27  Jan.  1798,  29  June,  6  July,  1799),  '"^"'^  afterwards 
went  to  London,  where  he  died. 

9.  As  before,  in  silver. 

10.  Ohv.   In  five  lines :  DAVID  hood  |  print  seller  |  carver 

GILDER  &  I  picture  FRAME  MAKER  |  CAMBRIDGE. 

Bev,    PEACE  PLENTY  &  LIBERTY.  =  A  wlicatslicaf.  Engravcd 
by  Milton. 

Edge.    Engrailed  or  smooth.  Id. 

11.  Struck  with  the  same  dies  as  no.  10,  only  smaller  and 

thinner. 

Edge.    Smooth.  i 

12.  Also  with  edge  inscribed  skidmore  .  IIOLBORN  .  LONDON,  h 
18.    Ohv.    As  before. 

Rev.    LIBERTY,  PEACE,  C0MMERCE.=An  anchor  and  cable  and 
cap  of  Liberty  radiated.  (Mule)  \ 

14    Ohv.    As  before. 

Rev.    HALFIM  NNY  .  1791  =  Arms   between   laurel  branches. 

(Mule)  I 


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15.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Rev.  PEACE  AND  PLENTY.  HALFPENNY  =  A  whealslicaf  and 
-  .  sickle  between  doves.  (Mule)  ^- 

16.  Ohv.  On  raised  edge:  james  tbukguley^  token  CAMinarx;E 

1799;  round  the  field :  noi3so:<rs  conduit  jjuilt  1014:  = 

Hobson's  conduit:  below,  hancock. 
Rev.   On  raised  edge:  hobson  .  Cambridge  .  CAiiraEU  .  159G  .  = 

In  sunk  field  a  man  on  horseback  to  the  right;  in  ex.: 

DIED  1G30  1  AGED  86.    At  the  sidc :  hancock.  f. 
Edge,  value  one  penny  payable  at  cambtudge.  Id. 

John  Burleigh,  alderman  of  Cambridge,  F.S.A.,  was  a  friend  of  the  rev.  William 
Cole  the  antiquary  ;  he  hved  in  Barnwell  at  the  house  of  Mr  Bailey  the  brewer,  and 
was  buried  in  the  Abbey  church.  He  died  22  Apr.  1S2S,  aged  75.  His  wife  died 
23  Apr.  1824,  and  was  buried  at  St  Clement's.  His  daughter  married  the  rev. 
John  James,  prebendary  of  Peterborough. 

17.  As  before,  but  edge  plain.  \d. 


(Jj)    The  County  of  Ca]\ibridge. 

1.    Ohv.    CURRENT  IN  THE  COUNTIES  OF  =  Bcardcd  licad  of  a 
druid,  to  the  left :  below  l79o. 

Iiev.   INDUSTRY  HAS  ITS  SURE  REWARD  =  A  bcc-hlvc,  surround- 
ed by  a  swarm  of  bees,  standing  on  a  four-legged 
•    stool;  on  the  ground  grass  growing.    Engraved  by 
Wyon. 

Edge.     CAMBRIDGE  BEDFORD  AND  HUNTINGDON.  | 

2-    I'^-l  As  before. 
Iiev.) 

Edge.  Ingrailed,  no  inscription.  \ 

3.  As  before,  only  smaller. 

Edge.  Ingrailed,  no  inscription.  \ 

4.  Ohv.    As  no,  1. 

Bev.    ANGLESEY  TvriNES  HALFPENNY  1791.  =  Thc  letters  P  C*^ 
•intertv.'iicd. 

Edge,    payable  in  London.  (Mule)  .} 


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5.  Ohv.     JOHN  OF  GAUNT  DUKE  OF  LANCASTER.  =  A  crowned 

head  in  profile,  below  a  small  star. 

Rev.     LANCASTER  HALFPENNY.  =  Arms. 

Edge.    As  no.  1.  (Mule)  \ 

6.  Ohv.    A  druid's  liead  in  profile,  encircled  with  a  wreatli 

of  oak. 

Rev.  NORTH  WALES  HALFPENNY.=A  cypher  R  N  G ;  above  it 
1793. 

Edge.    As  no.  1.  (Mule)  I 

7.  Ohv.     LET  GLASGOW  FLOURTSH.=  Arms  of  GlaS^W. 

Rev.  NUNQUAM  ARESCERE.  =  The  river-god  lying  down  and 
leaning  on  an  urn  inscribed  Clyde.     In  exergue 

MDCCXCL 

Edge.    As  no.  1.  (Mule)  i 

.  Chatteris. 

1.  Ohv.  CHATTERIS. FARTHING.  1813  =  A  sugar-loaf,  inscribed-—, 

C 

between  two  tea-chests,  on  wliich  hyson  and  SOU- 
CHONG. 

Rev.  W.  CURTIS.  WHOLESALE  &  RETAIL.  =  In  five  lincs : 
GROCER  &  I  TEA  DEALEli  |  LINNEN  &  |  WOOLLEX  | 
DKAREIi.  ^ 

2.  Ohv.  CHATTERIS  FARTHiNG.=  In  two  lines :  W.  CYRTIS  [  1813. 
Rev.   In  five   lines  :    for  public  |  ONE  |  farthing  |  1813  | 

ACC0]\[I\10DATI0N.  \ 

3.  Ohv.  As  no.  1. 
Rev.  Smooth. 

Edge.    Ingrailed.  \ 

Chesterton. 

1.  Ohv.  CHESTERTON  NEAR  CAMB.=  The  church  and  two  houses  ; 
below  JAcobs. 

Rev.  BRITISH  penny  .  1797.--=  A  large  globe  between  a  rose  and 
<  thistle. 

Edge.  I  pro.mise  to  pay  on  demand  the  bearer  one 
penny.  '^d. 


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March. 

1.  ohv.  to  facilitate  trade.    issued  nov^  1,  1811.  — 

In  field  MARCH  SILVER  TOKEN  ONE  SHILLING. 
Eev,     PAYABLE    BY    MESS^^.  S.    RATCLIFFE,    E.   FLAM,    AND  J. 

THURBON.^=  A  fleece  suspended.  IsJi. 

Messrs.  Eatcliffe,  Elam,  and  Thurbon  joined  in  the  expense  of  this  token,  and 
£50  worth  was  ordered,  and  put  in  circulation.  After  the  tokens  had  been  current 
a  short  time  it  was  discovered  that  there  were  more  in  circulation  than  the  pro- 
prietors had  issued.  They  were  in  consequence  withdrawn  from  circulation,  and 
the  silver  sold  in  London. — Boyne,  Silver  Tokens,  p.  52. 

2.  Ohv.     MARCH  .  ISLE  OF  ELY  =  In  tWO  lines:    JOHN  SMITH  I 

1820. 

JRev.    WHOLESALE  &  RETAIL  TEA  DEALER  =  In  four  lines  : 

LINEN  !  &  WOOLLEN  |  DRAPER  |  GROCER  &.  ^ 

3.  Also  of  tlie  year  1825.  -j- 
4   Ohv.  In  fiive  lines :  JOHN  |  TIIURBON  |  GROCER  |  &  brewer  | 

MARCH. 

Bev.    ONE  FARTHING.=A  barrel  lying  on  tlie  ground,  Lelow 
1827.  i 

NeWMAPxKET. 

1.  Ohv.  PENNY  TOKEN.  In  ex  :  NEWMARKET,  below  MDCCXCIX.=: 

Two  jockeys  on  horses  galloping  to  the  right :  behind, 
a  booth  with  a  flag. 

Eev.    In  nine  lines  [  CRAVEN  meeting  |  s^.  h.  v.  tempests  | 

HORSE  HAMBLETONIAN  |  RUN  M^  COOKSONS  |  DIA:\rOND 
OVER  THE  BEA-  |  -CON  COURSE  IN  8  MINUTES  |  BEING 
4  .  M(/7e.9)  1  FUR.  118  YD^   I  &  WON   BY   HALF   A  | 

NECK.  MAR.  26  I  .    Engraved  by  Wyon.  Id. 

2.  Ohv.  NEWMARKET  TOKEN.  1793.  =A  stag  lying  undcr  a  tree. 

Eev.    A  SNAIL  MAY  PUT  HIS  HORNS  OUT.==A  snail,  trcc,  and 
bridge  at  a  distance.    Engraved  by  James.  J 


III. 

THE.  MEDALS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  AND  COLLEGES 
AND  THE  TOWN. 


i.    Installation  Medals. 
StrucJc  in  gold^  silver,  bronze,  and  white  metal 

1.  Ohv.     JOANN  :  JEFFREYS  MAECH  :  CA]\[DEN  :  NOBTLTS  :  ACAD  : 

CANTAB :  CANCELL  :  The  robed  bust  to  the  left ; 
below  1835. 

Rev.    In  exergue,  in  four  lines,  DEUM  TIMETO  :  EEGE:\r  iioxo- 

EATO:  I  VIllTUTEM  COLITO  :  |  DISCIPLINIS  BONIS  |  OPE- 

EAM  DATO.    The  interior  of  the  senate  house;  above, 
Victory  flying,  with  wreath  and  palm.         inch  diam. 
Edge.  Smooth. 

2.  Ohv,     PEINCEPS  ILLUSTEISS  !  HUGO  PEECY  NOETHUMB  :  DUX 

ACAD  :  CANTAB  :  CANCELL.  1842.  The  robed  bust  to 
the  right. 

Eev.  The  south  view  of  the  senate  house.  An  academic  pro- 
cession going  to  the  east  door.  In  exergue,  senate 
HOUSE,  the  arms  of  the  university  and  (round  tlie  edge) 
alma  matee  cantabeigia;  above  in  a  segment  the 
arms  of  the  chancellor  with  supporters  and  crest,  tlic 
motto  espeeance  en  DIEU, being  written  round  the 
edge.  I4  inch  diam. 

Edge.    As  no.  1. 


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3.  Ohv,     nilNCEPS   CELSISSIMUS   ALBERTUS   ACAD  :  CANTAB  : 

CAXCELL.  1847.    The  robed  bust  to  the  left. 

Edge] 

4.  Ohv.     PEINCEPS   ILLUSTIUS:    GULIELMUS  CAYENDIBII 

mJE  dux:  ACAD  :  CANTAB:  cancell:  The  robed 
bust  to  the  left ;  below  1SG2. 


Edge] 


As  no.  1. 


ii.    University  Prize  Medals. 

The  Chancellor's  Classical  Medal. 
(First  given  1752.) 

5.  Ohv.  GEORGIUS  .  II  .  PIUS  .  FELIX  .  pater  .  PATRIiE.  Tlie 
king's  bust  armed,  his  head  laureated,  to  the  left.  On 
the  arm  e.  yeo.  f. 

Bev.    STUDTis   iiu.AtANiTATiS.      In   cxerguc,   in  tliree  lines, 

LIBERALITAS  .  T  .  IIOLLES  .  DUC  .  |  NOVOCASTR  .  ACAD.  | 

cancell.  On  a  platform  raised  on  four  steps  is  seated 
a  figure  of  holding  a  caduceus.    By  her  side 

is  standing  a  figure  of  holding  a  cornucopioj 

in  her  left  hand,  and  with  her  right  presenting  a 
medal  to  a  student  in  academic  dress.  Behind  him 
two  other  students.  In  the  background  the  senate 
house.  In  the  foreground  a  river-god  seated  recliuing 
on  his  urn,  whicli  is  inscribed  camus.  On  tlie  lowest 
step  of  the  platform  yeo  f.  By  the  side  of  the  stand- 
ing figure  of  are  the  arms  of  the  duke, 
crowned  and  surrounded  with   the  garter  inscribed 

HONI  SOIT  QUI, 

Edge.    The  stu<l'jut's  name  is  cut  out  in  raised  letters. 

A^alue  15  guineas.  Gold.    Diameter  2  in. 


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6.  Ohs.     GEORGIUS    III.   PITS    FELIX    PATER   PATRIAE.  TllC 

king's  liead  laureated  to  the  riglit,  bust  robed. 

Bev.  No  inscription.  A  female  figure  holding  a  lyre  in  licr 
left  hand,  placing  with  her  right  hand  a  wreath  on  the 
head  of  a  student  in  academic  costume.  Above  a 
flyhig  winged  genius  points  to  the  wreath  with  liia 
left  hand,  and  holds  with  his  right  a  trumpet,  to  which 
is  attached  a  scroll  inscribed  detur  digntssimo.  In 
exergue,  AUSP  :  AUG  :  |  hen  :  DUG  :  DE  ]  GRAFTON 
ACAD  :  CANTAB  |  CANCELL  :  |  On  the  ground  i.iaRK  .  F. 

Edge.    Plain,  the  name  of  the  medallist  being  engraved  on  it. 

Gold.    Diameter  2j'^j  in. 

7.  Ohv.     VICTORIA  D.  G.  nRITANNIARUM  REGINA.     Head  of  thc 

queen.    Beneath  w.  wyon,  r.a. 

Bev.  A  student  reading.  In  the  background  a  statue  of 
Minerva  and  a  lamp.  The  exergue  is  left  blank  for 
the  name  of  the  medallist. 

Edge.    Plain.  <^old.    Diameter  2^  in. 


The  Browne  Medal.    (First  given  17 


8.  Ohv.    ESSE  ET  VIDERI.     Head  of  sir  William  Browne; 

beneath  it,  in  tw^o  half  circles:  D.  gulielmcs  BROWNE. 
EQUES.  NAT  .  3  .  NON  .  JAN  .  A.  S.  MDGXCII. 
Bev.  SUNT  SUA  PR^MIA  LAUDI.  Apollo  seated  places  a  wreath 
on  the  head  of  a  student,  who  is  kneeling  and  holds 
a  scroll  in  his  hand.  In  the  exergue,  elegtus  COLL. 
MED.  lond.  PRiESES  A.  S.  MDCCLXV.  Engraved  by 
Ymgo.  Glold.    Value  5  guineas. 

9.  The  same,  engraved  by  W,  Wyon,  R.A. 

The  Powis  Medal.    (First  given  1SG7.) 

10.  Olv.    ri;  )  CARMINE  iiEROico.    Head  of  Virgil;  below  it 

viRGiirUS.    Beneath  the  bust  l.  c.  wyon  fec 


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Rev,  AUSPICIIS  EDWARDI  JACOBI  COMITIS  DE  POWIS  ACADEMIiE 
SUMMI  SENESCHALLI.  The  arms  of  the  university 
surrounded  by  an  ivy  wreath,  and  enclosed  by  a 
beaded  circle.  Gold. 

The  NoRRisfAN  Medal.    (First  given  1781.) 

11.  Olv.  THE  WISDOM  OF  GOD  UNTO  SALVATION.  The 
Cross  and  the  New  Testament. 

Rev.  DEATH  IS  SWALLOWED  UP  IN  VICTOIIY.  The  resur- 
rection. 

Edge,   the  nokpvISIan  prize 

Gold.  Value  £7.  4s. 


iii.    College  Prize  Medals, 
Christ's  College. 

12.  Olv,     GEORGIUS  III.  PIUS  FORTIS  DEFENSOR  FIDEL  TllC 

king's  bust  to  the  left.    Below  i.  phillp  .  fecit. 

Rev.  OB  ETHICEN  CHRTSTIAN.Ut  LUCULENTER  ET  SUAVITER 
EXPLICATAM.  The  whole  front  of  Christ's  college  seen 
from  Petty  Cury  with  portions  of  St  Andrew's  street 
and  the  church -yard  of  St  Andrew's  churcli.  In  ex. 
in  five  lines    COLL.    CHRISTI   pietatis  |  ergo  d. 

ALUMNUS    OLIM  |  BEILBY    PORTEUS,  |  EPISC.   LOND.  | 

1808. 

Edge.    The  name  of  the  medallist  and  date. 

Gold.  Diameter  Ifo  in.  Weight  2  oz.  2  dwt.   Value  £15. 

13.  Ohv.    As  no.  12. 

Rev.  On  raised  band:  OB  INSIGNE  IN  s.s.  publice  legendts 
ELOQUIUM  The  gate-way  of  Christ's  college.  In  ex.: 
as  on  no.  12. 

Edge.    As  no.  J  2. 

Gold.  Diameter  1^  in.  Weight  1  oz.  9^  dwt.   Value  £10. 


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Trinity  College. 
14.    Ohv.    In  five  lines,  witliin  a  laurel  wreath:  ALUMNis  | 

COLL.  S.S.  TKIN.  |  D.D.  |  FliA^X'ISCUS  |  WKANGIIAM.  A.M. 

Bev.  AIEN  APIZTETEIN.  Pythagoras  half  draped  seated,  at 
his  feet  a  ^roU  on  whieh  is  the  diagram  of  Euelid 
Book  i.  prop,  xlvii;  by  his  side  a  Muse,  standing  lean- 
ing on  a  lyre  whicli  rests  on  a  tripod.  In  exergue 
1842.  Along  the  edge  :  w.  wyon,  r.a. 
The  prizeman's  name  is  cut  in  on  the  edge. 

Gold.    Diameter  l^'Jj  in. 


iv.    Medals  of  the  University  Cliibs. 
University  Boat  Club. 

15.  Ohv.   UNIVEESITAS  CANTABRIGIENSIS.    On  a  sunk  field  the 

arms  of  the  university  in  a  decorated  shield.    Below  : 

PETEKS  CAMEEIDGE. 

Bev.    Within   a  wreath  in  three  lines:   head  |  of   the  | 
EIVEE.    Below  :  peters  Cambridge.  Diameter  2  in. 

16.  Olv.    As  before. 

Bev.    Within  a  wreath  in  two  lines:  trial  |  eights.  Below: 
PETERS  CAMBRIDGE.  Diainetci  2  in. 

17.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Bev.    Within  a  wreath  in  four  lines :  ISIDE  |  TRiUiAirnATA  | 

EEMIGIBUS  SUIS  |  GIIANTA  MEMOE.  Bclow :  peters 
CAMBRIDGE.  "  Diamctcr  2  in. 

18.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Bev,    Within  a  wreath,  in  five  lines:  tside  et  tiiamesi  | 

TKIUMl'HATIS  ANGLIA  IN  CERTAMExN  |  PROVOCATA — 
GRANTA  YICTRIX.     Below  :  peters  Cambridge. 

Diameter  2  in. 


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University  Rifle  Corps. 

19.  OJjv,    As  before. 

Bev.    Within  a  wreath  the  letters  C.  U.  E.  intertwined  "between 
the  words  winning  and  company.  Diameter  2  in. 

Engraved  Oct.  Term  i8^8. 

University  Athletic  Club. 

20.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Rev.    Within  a  wreath  in  two  lines  :  VICTOR  |  LUDOPu:\r. 

Diameter  2  in. 

21.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Eev.    university  athletic  club  second  prize.  AVithin 
a  wreath  a  winged  foot.    Below  peters  Cambridge. 

Diameter  2  in. 

22.  Olv.   As  before. 

Eev.    university   athletic  club  second  prize.  Within 
a  wreath  a  hand  holding  a  piece  of  a  broken  column. 

Diameter  2  in. 

23.  Olv.    universitas  cantabrigiensis.     The  arms  of  the 

university.    Below  :  munsey  Cambridge. 

Rev.    university  athletic  club  second  prazE.  Within 
a  wreath  in  two  lines  :  freshmen's  |  sports       l\  in. 

Engraved  Oct.  Term  t86S, 

24.  Ohv.    As  no.  15. 

Rev.    Within  a  wreath  the  letters  C.U.  ±\..  C.  intertwined  ;  below 
in  six  lines  :  winner  |  of  the  |  grand  |  challenge 

cup  I  FOR  the  I  100  yards  RACE.  Below  :  peters 
CAMBRIDGE.  Dianictcr  2  in. 

25.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Rev.    As  befoi  e  only  :  winner  |  of  the  |  grand  |  challenge 
CUP  I  FO]i  the  I  TWO  ^riLES  RACE.  Diameter  2  in. 


University  Swimming  Club. 
26.    Ohv.    As  no.  15. 

Rev.    Witliin   a    wrcatli  the  letters  C.  U.  S.  0.  intertwined ; 

beneath  in  two  lines:  mekses  pkofundo  |  pulcjikiou 
EVENIT. Below:  PETERS  CAMBuiDGE.  Diameter  2  in. 


V.    Medals  of  the  College  Cliihs. 

Clare  College. 

27.  Ohv.    On  a  raised  rim:  COLL.  DE  claue  lvj).  atjl  In 

a  plain  shield  the  arms  of  th.e  eollege.    Below ;  petkh.s 

CAMBRIDGE. 

Rev.    Within  a  wreath  in  five  lines:  ATiiLETis  |  CLAKEXsiiiUS 
PRO  M.  PASS.  CURR.  |  E  PREMIIS  ]  PRIMUM. 

Diameter  \h  in. 

Jesus  College. 

28.  Ohv.    VOULOIR  POUYOru.    In  a  sunk  field  two  sliields 

of  tlie  coHep^'e  and  of  the  fuunder  of  the  medal,  and 
erests.     I^elow  :  peters  Cambridge. 
Rev.   Within  a  wreath  in  five  lines:  the  |  LARKINC!  |  cilvllenoe 
I  SCULLS  I  1864.     Below:  peters  Cambridge. 

Diameter  2  in. 

29.  Ohv.    LOYAL  AU  MORT,    The  two  shields  of  the  college 

and  tlie  donor  cand  crests.     Belo>v  :  peters  Cambridge. 
Rev.    Within  a  wreath  in  five  lines:  the  LANirrON  |  VICTOR 
LUDORUM  I  ]MEDAL  |  JESUS   COLLEGE.      Below  I  peters 
CAMBRIDGE.  Diamctcr  2  in. 

Pembroke  College. 

30.  Ohv.    On  a  raised  rim  :  PEMBROKE  COLLEGE  liOAT  CLUI?, 

lS(;i;.    Arms  of  the  college.    Below:  peters  campridgk. 
Rev,    Withi!!  ;i  wreath  of  bulrushes  in  two  lines:  first  ijo.vt. 

JjL'low  :  PETERS  ca:hbru:)oe.  Diameter  L  m. 


St  John's  College. 

81.      Ohv.     LADY    MARGARET    BOAT    CLUB.      In    a    RUnk  fTClil 
the  arms  of  the  college;  beneatli  :  si  je  puis.  Below: 

PETERS  CAMBRIDGE. 

Eev.    Within  a  wreath  in  four  lines:  avrigiit  |  and  |  pearson 
SCULLS.     Below  :  peters  Cambridge.  l)iameter  2  in. 

32.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Bev.    As  before,  only  in  two  lines  :  BATE]\rAX  |  PAIR  OARS. 

Diameter  2  in. 

33.  Ohv.    As  before. 

Bev.    As  before,  only  in  five  lines  :  Andrews  |  and  |  MAPr.ES  | 
freshmen's  I  SCULLS.  Diameter  2  in. 

34.  Ohv.    A  raised  rim  with  no  inscrijjtion.    In  the  field  the 

arms  of  St  John's  college  with  crest  and  supporters. 
Below  on  a  band  :  PRiEMiA  primus  accipiet. 

Bev.  Within  a  wreath  in  four  lines :  CHAMPION  |  RACKicT 
medal  I  sr  JOHN'S  college  I  CAMBRIDGE.  Above  a 
coronet  and  a  rose,  below  a  portcullis.  Below  :  peters 
CAMBRIDGE.  Diamctcr  2  in. 


vi.    Private  Medals. 
85.    Ohv.    As  no.  15. 

Bev.    Within  a  wreath  in  three  lines  :  creber  |  utraque  ]MANU. 

Diameter  2  in. 

Bought  by  the  winner  in  the  boxing  matches  at  Jackson's  gymnasium. 

36.  Ohv.  On  raised  rim  :  CAMBRIDGE  university  billiard 
MEDAL  1859.    The  arms  of  the  university. 

Bev.  Within  a  wn-eath  two  cues  in  saltire  and  three  billiard 
balls.    ( )-i  a  label  :  DUM  SPIRO  SPERO.    Diameter  3  in. 

Bought  by  the  winner. 


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vii.    MiscelhMneous  Medals. 
(a)    KoYAL  Visits. 

87.     Ohv.     QUEEN  A^CTORIA.     PlilNCE  ALEEIiT.     Tlic  IlCads  of 
the  queen  and  prince  to  the  left.- 

Rev.    In  eight  lines:   TO  |  commemohate  |  the  visit  of  | 

QUEEN  YICTt)KIA  |  AND  |  riUNCE  ALDl^lT  |  TO  CAM- 
BRIDGE I  JULY  1847.  Above,  a  crown  wlience  issue 
rays,  below  a  garland  of  roses,  shamrock,  and  tliistles. 

Pewter.    Diameter in. 

38.      Ohv.     ALEXANDRA    PRINCESS    OE    WALES.      Head    of  the 

princess  to  the  riglit.  Below,  inidccclxiii.  Under 
the  bust  in  small  letters :  tinches  London. 

Rev.    AVithin  a  wreath  of  flowers  in  four  lines  :  visited  |  CAM- 
BRIDGE I  JUiNE  2^T^^  I  1864. 

Bronze.    Diameter  Ifoin. 


(Jj)    Personal  Medals. 

39.  Ohv.  CoNYEllS  .  MIDDLETON  .  s  .  T  .  P.  Head  of  Conyers 
Middleton,  librarian  of  the  university  1721—50,  to  the 
right,  bust  robed.    Below  :  gig  .  rozzo  .  r  .  eoma  .  1724. 

Rev.     ACADEMIyE  .  CANTABRIGIENSIS  .  PROTO  .  BIBLIOTILECARIUS. 

I  A  book-case  partly  hidden  by  a  curtain.    ]>efore  it,  a 

I  \  table,  on  which  are  books.    At  the  side,  on  a  pedestal, 

I  a  bust  of  Minerva,  with  helmet  and  armour, 
i  Gold,  Bronze.    Diameter  3|  in. 

! 

\  40.    Ohv.   In  five  lines  :  ciiarles  philip  |  yisCOUNT  PvOYSTON  ] 

|»  ATTAINED  IIIS  MAJORITY  |  23  .  APRIL  18r)7  | 

\^\  Rev.    In  eight  lines:  IN  all  |  time  of  iiis  |  tribulation  in  | 

■  :  ALL   I'LME  OF  HIS  WEALTH  |  IN  THE  HOUR  OF  DEATH  | 

|,  AND  !N  THE  DAY  OF  |  JUDGMENT  |  GOOD  LORD  DELIVER 

•  f     "  HIM.  !  Pewter.    Diameter  U  in. 


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(c)    Cambridgeshire  Horticultural  Society. 

Established  lo  March  1S24.    (Cooper,  Ann.  iv.  544,) 

41.  Obv.  No  inscription.  Pomona  seated  to  the  riglit,  lioldin-  a 

pine-apple  in  her  left,  and  a  line  in  the  ri,^-lit.  Beliitid 
her  a  vine-.    In  the  backg-ronnd  a  grceulionse.  On 
the  ground,  T  .  ^y  .  tngrai\[  .  f. 
Jiev.    Witliin  a  wreath  in  a  circle:  CAiMBRrDCJESimiK  hortt- 
CULTURAL   SOCIkiy;    and   within  this   in  '?>  lines: 

E^TABLTSHED  |  MARCH.  IOTII  |  1824<. 

Edge.    Name  of  the  prizetaker.  fSilver.    Diameter  2  in. 

{d)    School  Medals. 

42.  Ohv.    CAMBRIDGE  |  NEW  |  SCHOOL  |  1808. 

Rev.    REAYAL'D  |  OF  |  I\IER1T.  Pcwter.    Diameter  1,1^  in. 

43.  Ohv.    FROM  I  SUNDAY  |  SCHOOL  |  CAMBRIDGE. 

Eev.    KEAVARD  I  OF  |  MERIT.  Pewter.    Dian.ictcr  1-f^  in. 


APPENDIX. 

Checks  of  the  Co-operative  Society  of  Satyston. 

Founded  1S67. 

1.  sawston  co-operative  society.    In  field,  in  two  lines: 

one  I  POUND.  Co])per. 

2.  Ohv.    As  before.    In  field,  in  two  lines  :  half  |  SOV^., 

l^rass. 

Rev.    Blank.    Edge  engrailed. 

3.  sawston  co-operative  society.    In  field  5/- • 

4.  As  before,  only  2/ 

5.  As  before,  only  1/ 

6.  As  before,  only 

7.  As  before,  only  3? 

8.  As  before,  only  1^. 

9.  As  before,  oniy  ^ 

■  Of  these  all  but  n"  2  are  bracteates,  and  all  but  u"^  f  und  2  in  tin.  Tlw 
diameter  va:4es  between  ^^7^  and  j-^  in. 


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ADDENDxV*. 
IL 

TH^   PRIVATP]  COINAGES. 


The  Private  Tokens  of  the  ^Vuth  Centimj. 


[a)    The  Town  of  Cambridge. 

1.  Jaraes  Aiders  wiig  appointed  common  couTicihnan  in  iGCri.  Coojkt,  Ann. 
iii.  463. 

2.  Richard  Allen  was  appointed  common  coimcilman  in  1662. 

4.*    WILL  .  EASSETT  .  MEi^vCEii.  =  In   three   lines  :   His  1 
HALFE  1  PENNY. 

IN  CAMBRIDGE  .  1G69  =  In  the  fiehj  ^^r^^^  \ 

15.  Tlie  initials  do  not  correspond  with  the  name  of  the  i>suer. 

27.  Thomas  Fox  was  appointed  connnon  councilman  in  1662. 

40.  Samnel  Long  was  appointed  councilman  in  1688. 

41.  John  Lowry  was  displaced  from  being  alderman  in  1662. 

42.  Christopher  Mayes  was  displaced  from  beiiig  conncilman  in  1662. 
55.  Of  the  Eussells  of  Chippenham,  Cambridgeshire, 

63.  Philip  Williams  had  been  a  follower  of  the  prophet  Ludowick  ^luggle- 

ton,  but  conformed  to  the  established  church. 

(d)    The  County  of  Cambridge. 

DODDINGTON. 

I.  Robert  Adams  was  a  quaker.  On  the  25th  of  the  iitli  month  in  1660,  he 
was  one  of  twenty-seven  persons  committed  to  Cambridge  Castle,  for  being  present 
at  a  Friends'  meotir 


^  These  are  chiefly  "rom  articles  in  The  Ea^i  AnrjUan,  Vol.  ni.  pp.  1 1—13,  39— 4 1- 


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Ely. 


2.*    WILLI A^r  CHEVILL  =  The  Merchant  Taylor^'  Arms 
IX  ELEY  .  1G67  =  In  field  ^ 

4.*    JOHX  GATEii  OF  =  The  Fishmongers'  Arms. 


1 1.  The  Reades  of  Ely  were  also  quakers.  In  i66o  four  of  thelveades  were 
committed  to  Ely  gaol  for  refusing  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and,  wlien  brought 
before  the  magistrates,  said,  'We  could  not  for  con.science's  sake,  being  the  Lord's 
fiee  men.'  George  Kead  was  again  committed  in  1663  for  refusing  the  oatli,  and 
remained  prisoner  some  months.  Ilichard  Iteade,  in  1663,  suffered  a  distress  of  a 
large  brass  kettle,  Sfiid  to  be  worth  £1.  6ss.  Sd..  for  refusing  to  bear  arms  in  the 
county  militia. 


ICKLETOX. 

L*    GEOiiGE  FORDHAM  =  In  field  a  wheatsheaf. 

lETLETOX  IX  ESSEX  (si'-')  =  In  the  field  G .  F. 

ISLEHAM. 

2.    WILLIAM! .  iiEADE  .  IX  =  The  Grooers'  xVrms. 


lESLEllAM  .  lliUf)  =  In  the  field  ^^V"-^ 


So  HAM. 

4.  HOY  ELL  .  lOAXES  .  =  The  Grocers'  xVrms. 

OF  SOH.UI ,  1G54  =  In  the  field  I 

5.  As  no.  4,  only  165S.  '  i 

0.  XATHAXIELL  .  STEAKXE  .  =  The  Grocers'  Anns. 

OF  SOHAM  .  1GG7  =  In  the  field  i 

Upwell. 

1.  SAMUEL  .  YIXCEXT  =  In  a  shield  tlie  Mercei-s'  a)-ms. 

IN  YPWELL .  1GG4  =  In  the  field  s .  V.  (James  Carter 


esq. 


i 


J 


89 


West  Wratting. 
1.    EDWARD  CRANDFIELD  =  The  Groccrs'  Arms 
WESTE  .  RATINGS  =  In  tlie  field 

WlSBEACn. 

4.*    Also  witlioiit  the  dn,te. 

II. 

THE  PEIYATE  COINAGES. 

ii.    The  Private  Tokens .  of  the  xvuith  and  xlxfh 
Centuries. 


{a)    The  Town  of  Cambridge. 

i6.    Tliomas  Hobson  the  celebrated  carrier.    Cooper,  ^1??/?.  iii.  2?o— ■337. 

III. 

MEDALS. 

i.    Tn  stall a.tion  Medals. 

1.*    A  variety  of  n*^  1,  there  being  some  hair  on  tlic  brow, 
which  in  n"  1  is  wanting. 

8.*    Ohv.    Aleertus  prtnceps.    His  head  to  the  left. 

Bev.    In  seven  lines:    celsissimum  |  principem   alhertum  | 

CANCELLARTUM  SUUM  |  FAUSTO  FELICIQUE  OMINE  |  IN- 
AUGURATUM  L.'ETA  CONSPICIT  |  ACADEMIA  CANTA  BRTGIKN- 
SIS  I  JULTI  VI  MDCCCXLVtl. 

(M.essrs  Hunt  and  Ro.sldll  aii(]  .Afr  T.  Keed.) 
Gold,  Silver,  and  Bronze.  Dinntclcr  2  in. 


x 
t 

I 

I 


40 


iv.    Medals  of  the  University  Clubs. 
St  John's  College. 
34.*    Ohv.    As  11°  a^. 

Eev.   ST  John's  COLLEGE  ATHLETIC  CLUB.  rinsT  piuzp:.  Witliin 
a  wreatli,  Mercury,  fiyiug'. 

Diaiuctor  2  in. 

Engraved  May  Term,  1871. 

34**    Ohv.    As  n«  34. 

Bev,    ST    JOHN'S    COLLEGE   ATHLETIC   CLUB.      SECOND  PlllZE. 

Within  a  wreath,  a  man  throwing  a  weight. 

Diameter  2  in. 

Engraved  May  Term,  1S70. 

vii.    Miscellaneous  Medals, 
(a)    Royal  visits. 

37.^-    Ohv.    HER  most  gracious  majesty  queen  victoria 
&  H.  R.  H.  prince  albert.    Their  heads  to  the  left. 

Below  :    PETERS  AND  SON. 

Bev.    Within  a  laurel  wreath,  below  the  royal  crowii,  in  IT 
lines :  IN  commemoration  |  of  her  |  jmajesty's  visit  | 

TO  CAMBRIDGE  |  AT  THE  INSTALLATION  |  OF  UTS  |  ROYAL 
highness  I  PRINCE  ALBERT  |  AS  CHANCELLOR  OF  |  THE 
UNIVERSITY  I  JULY  1847.  The  rose,  shann'ock  and 
thistle  are  tied  in  with  the  branches  forming  the  wreatli 
by  the  ribbon  connecting  them.    Below  :  davis  birm 

Silver  and  White  Metal.  Diameter  2  in. 


cambkidOtK:  purxTra)  by  c.  j.  clay,  si. a,  at  thk  university  i-ijkss. 


AN  ANNOTATED  LIST 

OF 

BOOKS  FEINTED  ON  VELLUM 

TO  BE  FOUND  IN  THE 

2Kni'ber5(tj)  ana  College  %ibvmt^ 

AT 

CAMBRIDGE. 


Cambritigc: 

PRINTED  BY  C.  J.  CLAY,  M.A., 
AT  THK  UNIVERSITY  PRESS. 


I 


.  AN  ANNOTATED  LIST 

OF 

BOOKS  PRINTED  ON  VELLUM 

'to  be  found  in  the 

AT 

CAMBEIDGE. 
WITH  AN  APPENDIX 

CONTAINING  A  LIST  OF  WOKKS  EEFEEEING  TO  THE 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  CAMBEIDGE  LIBEAEIES 

BY 

SAMUEL  SANDARS,  M.A. 

OF  TEIXITY  COLLEGE. 


CAMBRIDGE : 

PRINTED  FOR  THE  CAMBRIDGE  ANTIQUARIAN  SOCIRTV. 

SOLI.  CY  DEIGHTON,  BELL  AND  CO. 
AND  MACMILLAN  AND  CO. 
1878. 


INTRODUCTOEY  REMAKKS. 

Books  printed  upon  vellum  form  the  most  sumptuous 
class  of  typographical  productions,  the  limited  number  of  copies 
printed,  their  consequent  extreme  ranty,  combined  with  their 
beauty,  rendering  them  objects  of  special  value  and  interest. 
All  which  desirable  characteristics  are  much  enhanced  when,  as 
frequently  is  found  the  case  in  works  produced  shortly  after  the 
invention  of  printing  or  in  special  and  presentation  copies,  the 
exquisite  art  of  the  illuminator  supplements  the  richness  and 
brilliancy  imparted  by  this  durable  material  to  the  printer's 
work,  and  accordingly  such  volumes  are  greatly  prized  and  are 
ranked  in  libraries  next  to  the  most  precious  manuscripts. 

The  following"  list,  containinsf  the  books  of  this  chiss  which 
the  Avriter  has  had  the  opportunity  of  inspecting  in  the  Uni- 
versity and  College  libraries  at  Cambridge,  is  the  result  of 
several  visits  made  to  these  collections  duriug  the  last  few 
years,  and  will,  it  is  believed,  be  found,  as  far  as  the  number  is 
concerned,  to  be  tolerably  complete ;  for  probably  few  speci- 
mens have  been  overlooked,  at  all  events  in  the  more  important 
libraries.  But  it  cannot  be  considered  exhaustive,  for  the  only 
way  of  ensuring  this  would  be  to  take  down  and  examine  every 
volume,  at  least  in  the  older  and  more  likely  classes  of  each 
library.  This  would  be  impracticable  for  a  non-resident,  and 
it  is  doubtful  whether  even  a  resident  could  be  found  to  under- 
take labour  of  so  tedious  and  possibly  unrcmunerative  a  cha- 
racter. If  books  'jf  this  kind  possess  illuminations  they  arc 
very  apt  to  be  look.xl  up  amongst  the  manuscripts,  and  occord- 
ingly,  and  rightly  are.  rendered  difficult  of  access;  if,  liowcver, 


2 


INTRODUCTOIIY  REMAIIKS. 


tliey.are  witlioiit  any  decorations  tliey  frequently  fall  into  the 
rank  and  file  of  the  general  library  of  printed  books,  and  elude 
observation;  for  it  is  only  in  a  very  foAv  catalogues  tliat  the  fact 
of  the  book  being  printed  on  vellum  is  in  an}^  way  noticed. 

The  writer  has  however  endeavoured,  both  by  personal 
search  in  the  various  collections  and  by  diligent  euquiiy  of  all 
competent  or  willing  to  give  him  information,  to  make  his  list 
as  comprehensive  as  possible.  Those,  however,  who  are  accus- 
tomed to  similar  investigations  will  be  able  to  understand  some 
of  the  difficulties  attending  the  search  after  books  of  this  very 
special  and  often  little  understood  kind  in  the  somewhat  widely 
scattered  college  libraries,  and  this  by  one  who,  in  addition  to 
the  disadvantage  of  being  but  a  passing  visitor,  whicli  has 
caused  his  notes  to  have  been  frequently  made  under  tlu' 
pressure  of  haste,  is  moreover  without  an}^  position  in  the 
University  entitling  him  to  unrestricted  admission  to  any 
libraries  except  those  of  his  ovv^n  college  and  the  public  collec- 
tions of  the  University  and  Fitzwilliam  Museum,  thus  render- 
ing him  in  all  other  cases  dependent  upon  the  courtesy  and 
patience  of  those  who  accompanied  him,  and  upon  which  he 
was  unwilling  to  tresj^ass  unduly. 

The  series  of  books  printed  upon  vellum  here  brought 
together,  though  not  a  large  onc\  nevertheless  forms  a  very 
respectable  collection,  and  contains  a  considerable  number  of 
unique,  rare,  and  interesting  represenlativ^es  of  this  small  and 
distinctly  marked  section  of  printed  books,  including  not  a  few 
examples  of  the  before-mentioned  graceful  combination  of  the 
artist's  and  printer's  skill,  and  also  several  that  have  hitherto 
escaped  notice.  And  if  the  wdiole  number  be  thought  less  than 
might  perhaps  have  been  expected  from  libraries  amounting  in 
the  a<^'OTe(:'-ate  to  above  half  a  million  \'olumcs",  it  should  be 

oo  o 

1  For  a  comparative  view  of  tlie  number  of  vcllum-priutcd  booics  in  different 
libraries,  see  j;oii,  page  7. 

2  In  tbe  edition  now  pnblisliing  of  the  Eucyclopoedia  Critannica,  under 
Cambridge  the  number  of  volumes  iu  the  UniverMty  library  is  estimated  at  half 
a  million,  bi;L  I'l-  volumes  have  not  been  counted.  It  is  customary  in  this 
country  to  ecu-.,  ilio  bound  volumes  only,  as  they  stand  on  the  Bhelves,  but  it  is 
Baid  that  abroad  it  is  usual  to  reckon  every  separate  work,  even  if  a  few  pages 
only,  as  a  volmn  .    This  may  perhaps  account  for  tlio  very  considerable  number 


IXTRODUCTOPvY  REMAilKS. 


remembered  tliat  none  of  the  great  book-collectors',  whose 
libraries  were  usually  richly  furnished  with  vellum-printed 
books  and  by  Vv'hose  liberality  the  great  library  of  the  sister 
University  has  been  so  enriched,  have  thought  fit  to  confer 
their  treasures  on  Cambridge ;  also  that  neither  the  University 
nor  the  separate  Colleges  have  funds  available  or  competent 
for  the  purchase  of  costly  books  of  this  kind,  which  are  clearly 
not  necessaries,  and  are  by  some  considered  mere  useless 
curiosities. 

Some  trouble  has  been  taken  to  note,  whenever  ascertain- 
able, the  donor  of  each  book,  and  it  Vy'ill  accordingly  be  seen 
that  the  greater  portion  have  come  from  two  principal  bene- 
factors, King  George  I.  and  Viscount  Fitzv/iliiam.    The  former, 
as  is  well  known,  purchased  and  presented  to  the  University  in 
1715  the  splendid  library  of  John  Moore,  successively  Bishop 
of  Norwich  and  Ely,  amounting  to  above  80,000  volumes,  and 
full  of  book-rarities  of  every  kind.    This  gift,  even  after  every 
allowance  be  made  for  political  considerations,  surely  shouLl 
go  far  to  redeem  the  earlier  representatives  of  the  House  of 
Hanover  from  the  charge  sometimes  brought  against  them  of 
indifference  to  the  cause  of  literature.    The  latter,  a  century 
later,  bequeathed  his  library,  with  the  rest  of  his  art  treasures, 
to  found  the  museum  known  by  his  name.    It  contains  a  fine 
series  of  Parisian-printed  Books  of  Hours.    Amongst  the  Col- 
leo-e  libraries  those  of  St  John's  and  of  Emmanuel  are  pre- 
eminent for  tlie  value  and  interest  of  their  vellum-printed 
books.    Several  of  the  others  have  but  a  specimen  or  two  each, 
and  the  libraries  of  Trinity  Hall,  Sidney  Sussex,  and  Downiug 
Collef^es  seem  to  have  nothing  at  all  of  the  kind. 

The  plan  adopted  by  Van  Praet  in  his  catalogues,  of  includ- 

of  volumes  that  are  credited  to  many  secoudary  foreign  libraries.  Tbo  volumes 
as  tliey  stand  on  the  shelves  at  Trinity  have  been  counted,  and  amou'^t  to  about 
70,000  volumes,  but  if  the  fine  cojlection  of  ITtli  century  and  other  tracts  ^^•ere 
counted  separately,  this  number  would  be  considerably  added  to.  St  Jolm's 
library  ranks  third  vrith  about  30,000  volumes,  and  Emmanuel  ami  Queens' 
college  arc  not  far  b.  i  'ish 

1  Lord  Fitzvaili';-.:.  s  library,  mentioned  below,  and  ^dr  Grylls'  bequest  of 
about  10,000  volunv..  to  Trinity  college,  may  be  thought  exceptions  to  this,  but 
in  the  latter  there  due  not  seem  any  volume  printed  entirely  on  veUum. 

1-2 


4 


INTRODUCTOIIY  llE>rAll K S. 


ing  all  books  containing  any  portion  printed  on  vellum,  lias  been 
followed,  and  the  more  willingly  as  it  gives  an  opportunity  of 
introducing  several  rare  Missals  of  English  and  Foreign  Uses. 
In  the  case  of  books  of  this  composite  kind  the  number  of 
vellum  leaves  forming  in  Missals  the  whole  or  a  portion  of  tlie 
Canon  of  tlie  Mass,  and  usually  containing  a  large  woodcut 
of  the  Crucifixion,  is  g'pecified.  When  the  full  title  or  furtlicr 
details  of  the  edition  under  description  may  be  found  in  Ha  in, 
Panzer,  Brunet  or  Van  Praet's  catalogues,  a  reference  is  given  to 
the  place  where  these  may  be  found.  The  whereabouts  of  otlier 
similar  vellum  copies  is  also  given  whenever  the  writer  has  been 
able  to  ascertain  it.  A  name  or  date  within  brackets  has  been 
ascertained  indirectly,  in  the  case  of  undated  liorie  from  the 
Almanac  or  Easter  table.  The  size  of  the  page,  in  most 
instances,  has  been  measured,  and  is  given  in  inches. 

Although  some  description  of  the  special  characteristics  of 
each  book  will  be  found  in  its  accompanying  notice,  yet  an 
opportunity  may  perhaps  be  here  taken  to  point  out  a  few  o 
the  more  valuable  and  interesting  articles,  arranged  in  order  Oi 
date  :— The  single  leaf  of  tlie  Mazarine  Bible,  No.  (1).  The 
three  fine  leaves  of  the  Mentz  Psalter  of  1457  (2).    The  first 
dated  Mentz  Bible  of  1462.(93).    The  very  beautiful  and  histo- 
rically interesting  copy  of  the  Mentz  Cicero  of  1405  (145). 
Cicero's  Epistles,  perhaps  unique,  by  Jenson  in  1471  (3).  The 
fragments  by  the  printer  of  the  Dutch  "  Speculum,"  by  some 
attributed  to  the  mythical  Laurence  Coster  (4),  (5),  (G),  (7),  (8). 
The  Itahan  Translation  of  Pliny,  by  Jenson,  147G,  with  its 
superb  illuminations  (10).    The  ponderous  volumes  of  Canoii 
Law,  by  the  same  printer,  in  147G  and  1477  (118),  (119),  and 
(120).    The  Indulgences,  printed  by  Lettou  in  1480  (110), 
(111);  by  A.  de  Key  sere  in  the  same  year  (11);  and  the  frag- 
ment printed  by  Caxton  in  1481  (101).    The  rare  first  edition 
of  the  Hebrew  Pentateuch  of  1482  (13).    The  fragments  of  the 
printing  of  Th.  de  Rood  (14)  and  jMachlinia  (15).    The  unique 
"Saintes"  Missal,  1491  (19).    The  special  presentation  copy 
of  the  Historia  Ba3tica,  1493  (20).    Two  copies  of  the  first 
Primer  printed  iu  England  by  De  Worde  from  Caxton's  types, 
one  of  them  tl).^  property  of  and  enriched  by  the  writing  (-f 


INTKODL^CTOP.Y  REMARKS.  5 

Queen  Katlierinc  Parr  (23),  (24).  Tlic  unique  copy  of  the 
Proceedings  of  tlie  Wurtzburg  Synod  (18).  Two  copies  of  the 
Sarura  Hours  by  Pigoucliet  in  149S  (25),  (74).  Two  copies  of 
the  Sarum  Breviary  of  1499  (121),  (112).  Two  copies  of  Pynsons 
first  Sarum  Missal  of  1500  (133),  (146).  The  very  beautiful 
French  translation  of  Seneca,  by  Verard  (134).  The  uni(iue  and 
hitherto  undescribed  copy  of  Faques'  Psalter  of  1504  (147).  The 
fine  Sarum  Manual  (99).  The  large  and  beautiful  copy  of  Sarum 
Hours,  with  a  miniature  of  its  owner  (75).  Bp.  Fisher's  work, 
printed  by  De  AVorde,  1508  (29).  The  apparently  undescribed 
edition  of  the  Sarum  Missal,  printed  at  Paris  in  1511  for  De 
Worde  and  Faques  (113).  The  fine  copy  of  Hours  (94).  The 
"Troye  Book"  by  Pynson,  1513  (128).  The  charming  copy  of 
the  Sarum  Missal  of  1514  (33).  Two  copies  of  the  first  edition 
of  the  rare  York  Missal,  15 IG,  one  hitherto  undescribed  (SG), 
(96).  The  magnificent  Mentz  Livy  of  1518,  in  two  volumes 
(37).  The  second  and  fourth  editions  of  the  Greek  Testament 
of  Erasmus  (115),  (124),  (125).  The  unique  work  of  P.  des 
Groux,  1519  (39).  The  three  fine  copies  of  Pynson's  Sarum 
Missal  of  1520,  the  first  with  specially  printed  additions  (40), 
(130),  (150).  The  unique  specimen  of  Skot's  printing,  1521 
(42).  Two  copies  of  Bp.  TonstaU's  work,  one  of  them  witli  his 
autograph  (43),  (116).  The  splendid  and  unique  Liege  ^^lissal 
of  1523  (45).  The  richly  bound  copy  of  Sarum  Hours  of  1528 
(138).  The  fine  specimen  of  printing  in  .Greek  (100).  Galen's 
works,  partly  translated  by  Dr  Linacre,  the  presentation  copy 
to  King  Henry  VIIL  (95).  The  unique  Aldine  Ovid  of  1533 
(48).  Byddell's  Prymer  in  Englysshe,  1535  (151).  The  grand 
and  unique  copy  of  the  Great  Bible,  1539,  specially  prepared 
for  Lord  Keeper  Cromwell  (126).  The  very  fine  and  large 
French  Bible  of  ]  548,  in  two  volumes,  the  presentation  copy  to 
King  Edward  VI.  (53).  The  historically  interesting  address  to 
Philip  and  Mary  of  England  (56).  The  probably  unique  Hebrew- 
Prayer-book  of  1557  (GO).  Archbp.  Park2r's  privately  printed 
works  1572  (61),  (62).  The  very  singular  specially  printed 
titles  by  Day,  1575  (102),  (103),  (104),  (105),  (106).  Holbein's 
Dance  of  Deat!;.  engraved  by  W.  Hollar  (87).  The  uni(pie 
little  book  of  devotional  prayers,  1704  (64),  and  the  sumptuous 


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INTRODUCTORY  REMARKS. 


edition  of  Telemaqne,  printed  at  tlie  1^'rencli  Koyal  Press  iu 
1785,  in  four  volumes  (SG),  a  work  whicL,  with  tlioj^e  by  Moliiii 
(65),  Nepveu  (88),  P.  and  F.  Didot  (U-2),  (143),  rivals  tlio 
beauty  of  the  earlier  examples  in  the  brilliancy  of  the  press- 
work  and  the  fineness  of  the  vellum.  For  in  many  modern 
specimens  of  vellum-printing,  owing  chiefly  to  a  faulty  selection 
and  preparation  of  t^he  substance  used,  and  to  its  varying 
thickness,  the  effect  is  unsatisfactory.  Perhaps  the  only  example 
in  the  following  list  entitled  to  this  condemnation  is  tlie 
Coulthart  pedigree  (GS). 

The  best  tlianks  of  the  Avriter  are  principally  due  to  V.r 
Bradshaw,  Fellow  of  Kinc^'s  Gulle!ze,  tlie  most  oblirj'injr  and 
learned  Librarian  of  the  University,  for  whose  uniform  courtesy 
and  ever  ready  assistance  to  him  in  his,  often  it  is  to  be  feared, 
somewhat  troublesome  encjuiries  he  here  desires  to  tender  his 
best  thanks  and  ackno^Yledgements.  He  is  also  mucli  indebted 
to  the  Master  of  Clare;  the  Master,  and  the  Eev.  S.  S.  Lewis, 
the  Librarian,  of  Corpus  Christi  College ;  tlie  Rev.  Dr  Wood, 
President  of  St  John's;  the  Hon.  the  Master  of  ^vLagdalene  ; 
the  Master  of  Sidney;  the  Pv.ev.  J.  B.  Pearson,  the  Librarian  of 
Emmanuel  ;  the  Pev.  P.  Sinker,  the  Librarian  of  Tiinity;  the 
Rev.  E.  T.  S.  Carr,  of  St  Catliarine's ;  the  Rev.  W.  "\V.  Skeat, 
of  Christ's  ;  ]\Ir  R.  L.  Bensly,  of  Gonville  and  Caius ;  the  Rev. 
W.  G.  Searle,  of  Queens';  to  the  Master,  and  Dr  Westmorland, 
of  Jesus  ;  to  Dr  Latham,  of  Downing  ;  to  the  late  Ivlaster  of  St 
Peter's;  to  Mr  0.  Johnson,  of  the  University  Library,  and  IsIy 
White,  Sub-librarian  of  Trinity;  and  to  all  other  gentlemen 
who  either  gave  him  access  to  the  respective  librnries  under 
their  charge,  lent  him  their  personal  assistance,  or  afforded  him 
information. 

S.  s. 

17,  QuEENSBoitoUGir  Teiuiace,  London,  W. 
Feb.  8,  1877. 


COMPArwVTIYE  VIEW  OF  THE  NUMBER  OF  VELLUM-PIIIXTEL) 
BOOKS  CO^rrAINED  IN  SOME  OF  TilE  PIUNCIPAL  LIBRA- 
RIES OF  EUROPE. 

This  table  is  mainly  based  on  that  given  in  the  Pi-efjice  to 
M.  Yan  .Praet's  Cattdogne  des  livres  impruncs  sur  vrliii  de  la 
Bihliotlieque  da  Boi,  G  vols.,  Paris,  18:^2—28,  but  fortlie  )iuinbL'r 
at  present  in  the  British  Aluseuni  the  Vv'riter  is  indobled  to 
Mr  R.  Garnett,  and  Mr  Bulien,  Avho  had  the  veUuni  books  in 
our  National  Collection  counted.  They  were  found  to  amount 
to  675  works;  but,  as  some  Hebrew  books  were  not  included, 
in  round  numljcrs  they  may  be  reckoned  as  amounting  to 
about  700.  For  the  computation  of  those  in  the  ]]od]eian  he 
has  to  thank  Mr  Coxe,  Bodley's  librarian  ;  while,  for  the  immber 
of  those  at  Chatsworth,  and  at  Ashburnham  Phice,  lie  is  in- 
debted to  the  courtesy  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  and  to 
that  of  the  Eiirl  of  Ashburnliam. 

M.  Van  Praet  estimates  the  number  of  books  of  this  class 
known  in  his  day  (a.  D.  1822)  at  about  2700,  of  which  14G7 
were  under  his  charge  in  what  is  now  the  great  National 
Library  at  Paris.  The  following-  comparison  is  not  an  ;iccurai.o 
one,  for  some  of  the  libraries  given  by  Van  Praet,  notably  the 
great  Paris  librajy,  must  since  his  day  liave  added  to  their 
collections,  and  the  Munich.  Library  is  omitted;  but  it  is  the 
only  one  readil}'-  attainable.  This  prefoce  by  M.  Van  Praet  will 
be  found  to  give  also  some  interesting  information  about  this 
class  of  books,  and  to  describe  the  several  kinds  of  vellum, 
varying  with  ti^-  different  sort  and  age  of  animal,  that  has  been 
used  to  supply  '  Ins  material  for  the  printer's  use. 


BOOKS  PRINTED  ON  VELLUM. 


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The  Bodleian  Library,  Oxford   

 (1877)... 

The  Library  of  tlie  Duke  of  Dcvoush 

ire  (1877)... 

97 

The  Library  of  the  Earl  of  A shburnham     ,  (1877)... 

100 

The  Library  of  tlie  Earl  Spencer  .... 

103 

The  Library  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough 

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n  dispersed  libraries  : — 

601 

Harley,  Earl  of  Oxford,  Library,..,. 

,..,sold  in  (1743)... 

210 

....    „  (1784)... 

1G7 

....    „  (1789)... 

77 

The  number  of  vellum  books  in  the  University  Library, 
Cambridge,  including  fragments,  is  about  70 ;  and  the  sum 
total  in  the  Cambridge  libraries  amounts  to  150  volumes,  or, 
excluding  duplicates,  135  separate  works. 


THE  TITLES  IN  FULL  OF  THE  PRINCIPAL  WORKS  BRIEFLY 
REFERRED  TO  IN  THE  FOLLOWING  NOTES. 


Ames  (F.),  T3'pograp]iical  Antiquities,  by  William  Herbert.    17S5.  -Ito. 
3  vols. 

Beloe  (W.),  Anecdotes  of  Literature  and  Scarce  Books.  1S07.  Svo.  6  vols. 
Bernard  (Edw.),  Catalogi  Librorum  MSS.  AngliaD  et  Hibcrniie  in  unum 
collecti.    Oxon.    1697.  Fol. 

A  few  very  rare  printed  books  arc  given  amongst  tlie  Cambridge 
and  Bp.  Moore's  MSS. 
Blades  (Wm.),  Life  and  Typography  of  William  Caxton.   1S61— 3.  -Uo. 
2  vols, 

BoTPiELD  (Beriah),  Catlicdral  Libraries  of  England.    1S49.  Svo. 

—  —       Bibliotlieca  Membranacca  Britannica.    Published  by 

the  Philobiblon  Society.    II.,  Art.  4.    1S55.  Svo. 

This  work,  so  far  as  Cambridge  books  are  concerne;!,  simply 
copies  Tiartshorne,  without  any  additii^ns  or  corrections. 
Bradshaw  (II.),  Catalogue  do  livres  do  la  Bibliothc«iue  de  TUnivcrsite  il 
Cambridge  imprimes  sur  vclin.  Published  in  Le  Btbliop/iilc,  Londrcs, 
Septembre  et  Novembre,  1S63.    8vo.,  pp.  105— lOS  and  P23— 127. 

This  has  been  of  great  service  to  the  writer.  There  have  however 
been  several  additions  since  its  publication.  For  an  interesting 
account  of  the  rise  and  progress  of  the  University  Library,  sec  a 
contribution  to  the  short-lived  Cambridge  University  Gazette, 
1869,  Nos.  9—15,  by  the  present  libi-arian,  Mr  Bradshaw. 
British  Museum,  Catalogue  of  Hebrew  Books  in  the  Library  of  the. 
1867.  Svo. 

The  MS.  Catalogue  of  printed  Books  in  the  British  Museum  has 
been  much  referred  to,  though  it  is  not  specially  quoted  in  the 
notes. 

BrUxNET  (J.  C),  Manuel  du  Libraire.   Paris.  ISGO— 70.    G  vols.  Svo. 
Campbell  (M.  F.  A.  G.),  Annales  de  la  Typographic  Noerlandaisc  au  XV. 

Siecle.  La  TIayo.    1874.  Svo. 
Cotton  (IL),  Typographical  Gazetteer.    Oxford.    1S31.  Svo. 

At  the  end  is  a  list  of  vellum  books  in  the  Bodleian,  but  Mr 
Donee's  -  nd  other  books  have  since  been  added. 


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Dallaway  (J as.),  Anecdotes  of  tlio  Arts.    lSi)0.  Svo. 

De  Morgan  (A.),  Arithmetical  Books  from  invciitiun  of  printing  to  the 

present  ti]iic.    18-47.  Svo. 
DiBDiN  (T.  r.),  Typograpliical  Antiquities,  based  on   llerbcrt'.s  Ames. 
1810—19.    4to.  4  vols. 

■          Introduction  to  Greek  and  Latin  Classics.    1827.    Svo.  2  vols. 

•  •   Bibliographical  Decameron.    1817.   Svo.  3  vols. 

  Bibliotheca  Spencepana.    1814 — 5.    Svo.  4  vols. 

  ^Edes  Althorpianoe.    1822.    Svo.  2  vols. 

  Catalogue  of  the  Cassano  Collection.    1823.  Svo. 

  BibUographical  Tour  in  France  and  Germany.    1S2L    Svo.  3  vols. 

  Bibliographical  Tour  in  Northern  Counties,  &.c.    IS'.l'i,  Svo. 

2  \oh. 

  Library  Companion.    1824.  Svo. 

Dickinson  (F.  H.),  List  of  printed  Servicc-Books  according  to  the  ancient 
uses  of  the  Anglican  Cluirch.    1S50,  Svo. 

This  list  is  incorporated  in  Bohn's  ed.  of  Lowndes's  ^lunual,  and 
first  appeared  in  the  EccksloJogisf. 
Douce  (Francis),  Holbein's  Dance  of  Death.    1858.  Svo. 
Graesse  (J.  G.  T.),  Trcsor  de  livres  rarcs.    Dresden.    1859—69.    7  vols. 
.4to. 

GoUGii  (11.),  British  Topography.    17S0.   4to.  2  vols. 

lias  lists  of  Salisbury  and  York  Missals  in  vol.  ii. 
Grenville  (T.),  Hare  and  Curious  Books  in  the  Library  of  Bt.  Honourable 

T.  G.    1S42-S.  Svo. 
IIain  (L.),  Kepcrtorium  Bibliographicum.     Stuttgartd,  &c.    1S2G— 38. 

Svo.    4  vols. 

llARTSiiORNK  (C.  IL),  l^ook  Rarities  of  Cambridge.    1829.  Svo. 
lloLTROP  (J.  W.),  jMonumens  typographiques  dos  Bays-Bas.  La  llayc. 
1SG8.  FoL 

.          Catalogus  librorum  in  sceculo  XV*^.  imp,  in  Bibl.  Ilagana.  Hag;\3- 

comitum.    1856.  Svo. 
HoRNE  (T.  II.),  Introduction  to  the  Study  of  Bibliography.    1814.  Svo. 
2  vols. 

Johnson  (J.),  Typographia.    1824.    12mo.  2  vols. 

LiNDE  (A.  VAN  DKu),  Dc  Haavlemschc  Costerlegende.    Translated  and 

noted  by  J.  IL  Ilessels.    1871 .  Svo. 
Lowndes  (W.  T.),  l^ibliographer's  Manual.    By  H.  G.  Bolm.   1^64.  Svo. 

6  vols. 

Maitland  (S.  R.),  Early  printed  books  in  the  Lambeth  Library.  1813. 
Svo. 

Martin  (J.),  Catalogue  of  privately  printed  books.  2nd  ed.    1854.  Svo. 
Panzer  (G.  AV.),  Aimales  Typographici  ad  annum  1536.  Nuremberg. 

1793— 1S(>3.    1!  v.ils. 
Renouard  (A.  A.),  Ahi:ales  de  rimprimerie  des  Aide,    l^iris.   1825.  Svo. 


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Rossi  (J.  B.  de),  Libri  Stampati  di  litteratura  eaci*a  cbruica.  raima. 
1812.  8vo. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  Manuscripts  &c.  in  FitzwlUiam  Museum,  Cambridge.  1S7G. 
Sinker  (R.),  Catalogue  of  Fifteenth-century  Printed  Books  in  Library  of 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge.    1876.  Svo. 
Steinschneider  (M.),  Catalogus  Librorum  Hebrixiorum  &c.  Berolini. 

1852— ISGO.  4to. 
TiRABosciii  (Gir.),  Bitlioteca  Modenese.   Modena.    1781.    6  vols. 
Uffenbach  (Zacii  Conr.  von)  Reisen  durch  Eiigelland  &c.    Ulin.  1754. 

3  vols.  Svo. 

The  third  vol.  pp.  1 — 84,  contains  the  account  of  the  Baron's  visit 
to  Cambridge  and  its  libraries,  and  notes  the  principal  objects  of 
interest  there  in  1710. 
Van  Praet  (J.),  Catalogue  des  livres  imprimes  sur  vclin  de  la  Biblio- 
theque  du  Roi.    Baris.    1822—28.    Svo.  G  vols. 

When  a  reference  to  Yan  Bract,  1st  Cat.  is  given,  this  Catalogue 
is  intended,  and  it  moreover  shows  that  the  Baris  Library  contains 
a  vellum  copy  of  the  work  under  notice. 
■ —    Catalogue  des  livres  imprimes  sur  vclin,  dans  les  biljliothoqucs  tant 
publiqucs  que  particuliercs.    Baris.    182-4 — 1828.    Svo.  4  vols. 
Referred  to  as  Van  Bract,  2nd  Cat. 
Waagex  (Br),  Treasures  of  Art  in  Great  Britain.    1854.  3  vols.,  and  1857 
Suppt.  Svo. 

Westcott  (B.  F.),  History  of  the  English  Bible.  Cambridge.    1SG8.  Svo. 


*  *  Where  no  'place  is  given  in  the  above  list,  London  is  to  be  understood 
as  the  place  of  pviutiny. 


LIST  OF  PLACES,  PRINTERS,  OR  PUBLISHERS. 


ENGLAND. 
Westmixster 
.  Caxton  (Wm.),  101 

Worde  (W.  de),  28,  24 
Oxford 

Rood  (Theod.),  14 

LOIYDON 

Lettou  (John),  110,  111 
Macblinia  (\V.  do),  15 
Wordo  (W.  de),  29,  113,  131 
Pynson  (Ricli.),  40,  43,  99,  114, 

IIG,  128,.  130,  133,  14G,  148, 

150 

Faqiies  (Wm.),  113,  147 
Skot  (John),  42 
Baiikes  (II.),  131 
Grafton  (Kicli.),        \  joq 
Whitclmrcli  (Edw.),  i 
Byddell  (Jolm),  j 
Marshall  (Wm.),  S 
Day  (John),  Gl,  G2 
Day  (Richd.),  102,  103,  104,  105, 
106 

Sinison  (G.),  > 

White  (W.),  i 

Barnes  (John),  64 

Edwards  (John),   \  G5,  87 

Molini  and  Coy,    J  G5 

Cooper  and  Wilson,  GG 

Harrison  and  Sons,  GS 

Without  printer's  name,  131^  144 
York 

Gachet  (John),  3G,  9G 
Cambridge 

Clay  ^C.  J.),  107 


HOLLAND  AND  BELGIUM. 
Speculum,  Printer  of  the,  4,  5,  G,  7,  8 

LOUVAIN 

Bergagnc  (Ant.),  56 

AUDENARDE 

KcYsere  (A.  do)  11 
Antwerp 

Ruremundt  (Chr ),  97 

Ililleniiis  (xMidi.),  52 

Loe  (Jean),  53 
Leyden 

Zeveriniis  (John),  32 

GERMANY. 

Mentz 

Gutenberg  (John)  ?  1 

Fust  (John),  ) 

Schoeli'cr  (Peter),  r' 

Schocffer,  (John),  37 
Bamberg 

Sensenschmidt  (Jolm),  17 

Pfeyl  (John),  28 
Strasburg 

Ribehus  (V.),  139 
Cologne 

—      ?  12 
Augsburg 

Ratdolt  (E.),  22 

R.atdolt  (J.),  34 
Ulm 

Zainer  (J.),  9 
Nuremberg 

Stuchs  de  Sultzbach  (G.),  16 

WURTZBURO 

Reyser  (G.),  18,  73 


BOOKS  rniXTE 

Basle 

Frobeii  (Jiio.),  115,  124,  125 

ViEXXA 

Allantse  (L,),  44 
Mayer  (S.),  57 

FRANCE. 

Paris 

Pigouclict  (Ph.),  25,  74 

Vostrc  (Simon),  25,  74,  77,  120 

Vcrard  (Ant.),  27,  7G,  79,  134 

Higman  (N.),  19,  83 

Richard  (J.),  108 

Kerver  (Th.),  26 

Keniacle  (G.),  26 

13arbiGr(J.),     1  73 

Le  Rouge  (G.),  J 

Ilopyll  (W.),  30,31,  33,  45,  149 

Byrckman  (Fr.),  30,  31,  33,  45, 

97,  122,  149 
Ponset  le  Preux,  35 
Sutor  (R.),  113 
Bienaysc  (J.),  113 
Ferrebouc  (Jac.)  113 
Gormontius  (J.),  39 
llarJouyn  (Gil.),  82,  94 

—       (Cicnn.),  84,  85,  138 
Roche  (J.  du  la),  81 
Eustace  (G.).  81,  83 
Regnault  (Fr.)>  "^^^  47,  50,  107, 

117,  127 
Oolinfeus  (S.)?,  95 
Amazcur  (Jo.),  58,  98,  109 
Merlin  (Gu.),  58,98,409 
Estienue  (A.),?  141 
Iniprinierie  dii  Roi,  86 


ON  VELLUM.  13 

Nepveu,  88 
Didot  (P.),  142 

—  (P.),  92,  143 
Tro.s.s  (E.),  143 

^Vithout  Printer's  name,  41,  55, 
72,  75,  112,  121 

ROUEX 

Morin  (U.),  108 

Olivier  (P.),  36,  90,  123,  137 

Cousin  (Jac),  123,  137 

rrALY. 

Rome 

Silber  (E.),  20,  21 

I)e  Romanis,  67 
Venice 

Jenson  (Nic),  3,  10,  US,  119,  120 
Manutiiis  (Aldus),  )_^^ 
Asulanus  (Andr.),  ) 
Liechtenstein  (P.),  44 

BOLOG.XA 

Chajjim  (Abrali.  b.),  13 

—  ?51 
Milan 

Zanotus  Castiliuneus,  136 
Yerona 

lSabi(n\es  (StcplKinn.s  et  fratrcs) 
m) 
Mantua 

Cohen  c  Gazolo  (Jac.  b.  ^^iph.) 

60 

Sabionetta 
Foa  (Tobias),  59 

SPAIN. 

Toledo 

Rodei'icu.s  (Petr.),  140 


BOOKS  PRINTED  ON  AT^LLI^M 

IN  THE 

CAMBRIDGE  UNIYEESITY  LIBRARY. 

1.  (One  leaf  of)  BiBLiA  Latina,  wlthuut  date,  place,  or 
printers  name  [Mentz,  not  later  than  August  14,  145G). 
Folio.    [IGi  X  111  inches.] 

A  fragment,  in  fine  condition,  of  the  funons  IMaziirinc  IJible,  beinj 
leaf  209  of  tlic  first  volnnie,  commencing  with  the  worcb: — '"'sancti  snnct- 
orum."  Bought  at  the  Culemann  sale,  Sothcbys,  IS70,  No.  171.  Only  seven 
copies  of  this  Bible  printed  on  velhim  appear  to  be  known.  Mr  CJrcnvillc's 
copy,  in  the  British  Museum  at  present,  seems  to  be  almost  the  only  one  in 
this  country.  A  similar  copy  at  the  sale  of  ]\Ir  Perkins'  library  in  June, 
1873,  sold  for  the  immense  sum  of  ^3400,  and  is  now  in  tlie  posscs>i()n  of 
the  Earl  of  Ashburnliam.  Other  vellum  copies  are  in  the  National  Library, 
Paris,  and  at  r)orlin. 

Van  Praot,  1st  Catalogue,  i.  p.  15. 

Dibdin's  Bibl.  Tour,  2nd  Ed.,  ii.  107. 

llepertoriuin  Bibliograplucum,  2G7.  Brunet,  r.  8G7.  llain,  *303I. 
Bibl.  Spencer.,  i.  3. 

2.  (Three  leaves  of)  Psalterium  Latinum,  Morjuntiw,  per 
Joh.  Fust  et  Pet.  Schoeffer,  August  14,  1457.    Folio.   [IG  x 
inches.] 

A  portion  of  the  celebrated  Mcntz  Psnlter,  the  first  printed  book  with 
.a  date.  These  leaves  begin  severally :— Ejus  Cantate,  Dixit  insipiens, 
omnis  homo,  and  contain  one  of  the  large  initials,  and  several  of  the 
smaller  ones,  printed  in  colours.  Presented  in  1870  by  'Sir  TIcnry 
Bradshaw,  Fellow  of  King's  College,  and  University  Librarian.  Two  leaves 
were  in  the  destroyed  library  at  Straslnu-g,  and  one  leaf  is  in  the  library  at 
Gotha.  ■  Only  seven  or  eight  complete  cop-ies  of  this  Psalter  are  known, 
and  all  are  ]. tinted  on  vellum.  Copies  are  to  be  seen  in  the  British 
Museum,  Lor.l  Spencer's  collection,  the  Boyal  Library  at  ^Vindsor,  tlie 
National  Librnvy,  Paris,  and  the  Imperial  Lil)ravy  at  Vienna.    Van  Praet, 


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IstCat.,  I.  p.  204;  and  Supplement,  p.  32.  Bibl.  Spcnc,  i.  107.  Panzer, 
II.  111.    Hain,  13479. 

3.  CiCEUONis  (M.  T.)  Epistolarum  Familiarum,  libri 
xvi.  [Venetiis)  a  Kicolao  Jenson  Gallico,  l-iTl.  Quarto. 
[11  X  7f  inches.]    204  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter.,,.  The  first  page  has  an  illuminated  border, 
and  the  initials  throughout  are  also  illuminated.  A  MS.  nntry  states  that 
in  1G57  this  copy  belonged  to  Joan.  Baptista  Maurenus  of  Verona.  It 
formed  a  part  of  Bp.  Moore's  Collection,  presented  by  George  I.  in  1715, 
and  is  therefore  not  the  same  as  that  in  the  dispersed  Ilarleian  Collection 
referred  to  by  Van  Pract,  ^Yhich  appears  to  have  been  the  only  other  copy 
on  vellum.  The  present  resting-place  of  the  ITarleian  copy  is  unknown. 
Mr  Bradshaw  in  Bibhophilc  (1863)  126,  this  copy.  Bibdin's  Intro. 
Classics,  I.  418,  tliis  copy.  Ilartshorne  43,  tJiis  copy.  Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat., 
p.  255.    Panzer,  iii.  76.    Hain,  5168.    Dibdin,  Bibl.  Spenc,  iv.  4SD. 

4.  (Two  leaves  of)  Donatus  Abbreviatus.  By  the  printer, 
and  in  the  type,  of  the  Dutch  Speculum  Jmmance  Salvutionis, 
Quarto.    [8-J-  x  oh  inches.]    SO  Hnes  to  the  page. 

Purchased  at  the  Culemann  sale,  London,  1870,  No.  218.  Nothing  is 
known  with  any  certainty  as  to  the  date  of  this  or  the  following  four  works 
from  the  same  press.  Mr  Iloltrop  mentions  a  work  by  this  printer  in  the 
Library  of  The  Hague  with  MS.  notes,  proving  it  to  have  been  purchased 
between  the  years  1471 — 74.  And  this  is  the  earliest  date  that  can  at 
present  be  assigned  to  these  books.  For  an  account  of  these  so-called 
''Costcriana,"  sec  Mr  llcssels'  Introduction  to  his  translation  of  Dr  Van 
der  Linde's  "Haarlem  Legend." 

Holtrop(J.  H.),  Monumens  Typographiques  des  Pays-Bas,  31. 

Hessels  (J,  H.),  Translation  of  Dr  A.  Van  der  Linde's  (p.  31)  Haarlem 
Legend,  Introd.  xvii.,  and  Mr  H.  Bradshaw's  List  of  Types  and  Devices 
used  by  printers  in  Holland  in  xv.  Cent. 

Van  Pract,  1st  Cat.,  p.  4,  &c. 

5.  (Two  leaves  of  a)  DoNATUS.  Another  edition  the 
same  printer.    Quarto.    [8^  x  6  inches.]    27  lines  to  the  page. 

The  1st  and  8th  leaves,  purchased  at  the  Culemann  sale.  No.  217  (1). 

6.  (Four  leaves  of  a)  Donatus.  Another  edition  hy  the 
same  printer.    Quarto.    [8  x  5t^-  inches.]    27  lines  to  the  page. 

Also  from  the  Culemann  sale.  No.  217  (2). 

7.  (One  leaf  ci':  Galli  (Alex.)  Doctrinale.  By  the  same 
printer.    Quarto.    ^8  x  5§  inches.].    29  lines. 

One  leaf,  purchased  at  the  Culemann  sale,  No.  44. 


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_  8.    (Four  leaves  of)  Galli  (Alex.)  Doctrixall.  Another 
edition  hj  the  same  printer.    Quarto.   [8^  x  6  inches].  29  linos. 
Four  leaves,  j^resented  by  ^Iv  Henry  Bradsliaw  in  1S70. 

9.  (Fragments  of)  BocCACCio  (G.)  Der  kurcz  sin  von 
ETLICHEN  FROWExN,  VON  denen  J.  Boccacius  in  latin  bcschriheu 
hat,  unci  Doctor  H.  Steinhowel  getiitscliet.  Uhn,  Jo.  Zainer, 
(1473)._  Folio. 

Slips  of  two  leaves  only  found  in  the  contemporary  binding  of  a  copy  of 
the  "  Vitas  Patrum"  by  the  same  printer.  Mr  Bradshaw  says  that  no  copy 
on  vellum  has  been  hitherto  described. 

The  work  is  a  German  translation  of  the  Compendium  de  pra^claris 
niulieribus  by  Boccaccio. 

Bradshaw  (in  Bibliophile,  1863)  127.    This  copy.  Ilain  *3333. 

10.  HiSTORTA  Naturale  DE  C.  Plinio  Secoxdo  tradocta 
di  lingua  latiua  in  fiorentina  per  Cliristophoro  Landino  al 
Serenissimo  Ferdinando  Hq  di  Napoli.  Venetiis,  opus  Xicolai 
Jansonis  Gallici,  1476.    Folio.    [15-J-  x  10  inches.]    415  leaves. 

Printed  in  a  beautiful  Roman  letter.  The  first  pages  of  the  several 
books  are  surrounded  by  magnificent  illuminated  borders  in  the  Renais- 
sance style,  and  the  initials,  large  and  small,  form  graceful  miniatures. 
Dr  AYaagen  in  his  "Art  Treasures"  describes  this  copy  at  cousiderablo 
length,  and  states  "that  it  forms  a  convincing  proof  to  what  a  degree,  even 
after  tlie  invention  of  printing,  it  remained  customary  to  ornament  bouks 
with  miniatures,  so  that  the  serious  occupation  of  learning  might  not  bo 
witliout  the  beautiful  and  cheerful  ornament  of  art."  He  then  proceeds 
to  give  a  detailed  account  of  its  rich  and  elaborate  ilhnninated  decoration.s, 
which  he  cc»nsiders  to  be  of  Milanese  origin,  and  "in  drawing,  modelling, 
precision,  delicacy  of  execution  and  power,  and  fullness  of  the  colours,  to 
rank  amongst  tlie  finest  of  the  kind."  The  borders  form  architectonic 
frames  to  the  p:igcs,  and  figures  and  medallions  are  frequently  introduced. 
The  work  itself  is  the  first  edition  of  the  Italian  version  of  Pliny,  and  the 
master-piece  of  Jenson,  the  ingenious  Frenchman,  who  was  sent  by  King 
Charles  VII.  to  acquire  the  art  of  printing  at  Mcntz. 

This  copy  is  from  Bp.  Moore's  library.  Other  copies  on  vellum  ni-e  in 
the  National  Library  Paris,  Douce  collection  at  the  Bodleian,  at  llolkham 
Hall,  in  the  Ilunterian  Collection  Glasgow,  and  in  Lord  Spencer's  Collec- 
tion. 

Waagen  (Dr),  Art  Treasures,  nr.  452—3,  ihits  copy. 
Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  iii.  p.  53,  this  copy. 
Bradshaw,  liiMioph.  123,  this  cojjy. 
Dibdin  (T.  '■'.  ).  Classics,  ii.  319,  this  coj^j. 


Dibdin,  ^sut  thci-n  Tour,  ii.  737. 
Panzer,  iii.  i  1  'J. 
S. 


Dibdin,  Bibl.  Spcnc,  ii.  31 G. 
llain,  13105. 

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11.  LiTTER.E  Indulgentiapjtm  {Audemirde.    Arend  de 
Keysere).    March,  14^80.  Broadside. 

No  printer's  iinine,  but  in  Kcyserc's  types. 

This  Indulgence  was  issued  by  the  Master  of  the  Hospital  of  St  John 
of  Jerusalem,  for  assistance  against  the  Turks.  Jt  was  recovered  Ijy 
Mr  II.  Bradshaw  from  the  binding  of  a  copy  of  "J3oetius,"  printed  at 
Ghent,  by  the  same  printer,  in  1485,  now  in  the  University  Library,  and 
had  beoi  used  os  piinter%  waste.  Mr  liradshaw  informs  the  Avritcr  that 
as  the  Indulgence  was  only  valid  up  to  31st  March,  it  must  have 

been  printed  at  Audcnarde  before  A.  de  Keysere  moved  from  thence  to 
Ghent.    Presented  by  ^Ir  Bradshaw  in  1870. 

Campbell  (M.  F.  A.  G.),  Typographic  ^S'ecrlandaise  au  XV.  siccle,p.  44.'5, 
tins  cojiy. 

12.  (A  Fragment  of)  Psalterium  Latinum  [Colorjne,  about 
1480  ?) 

A  small  slip  of  a  Latin  Psalter,  printed  in  Germany.  Used  in  binding  a 
copy  of  the  "  Manipulus  Curatorum,"  printed  at  Cologne,  by  Conrad  do 
Ilomborch,  in  14S0.    Purchased  at  the  Culcmann  sale  in  IbTO. 

13.  Hebrew  Pentateuch,  Bologna,  Ahraham  hen  Chayini 
de  Tintori  (a.d.  1482).    Folio.    [12f  x  9  inches.] 

First  Edition  of  the  Hebrew  Pentateuch,  printed  in  beautiful  largo 
square  Hebrew  type.  This  copy  is  in  very  good  condition;  there  is 
nothing  to  indicate  any  of  its  former  possessors.  It  has  been  recently  pur- 
chased. Other  copies  are  :  (1)  one  that  belonged  to  Abbe  de  llossi ;  (2)  that 
of  Count  d'Elci  at  ITorencc;  at  the  Bodleian;  (4)  the  National  Li1>rary, 
Paris;  (5)  the  Library  at  Modena;  (G)  the  Chapter  Library  at  Verona; 
(7)  and  one  recently  acquired  by  the  British  Museum. 

He  Rossi,  Annales  Sec.  xv.,  j^p.  22,  25.        Dibdin,  Bib.  Spenc,  ii.  31G. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  10.  Cotton,  Typ.  Gaz.,  3H. 

Steinschneider,  Cat.  No.  2.  Panzer,  i.  214. 

Brit.  Mus.  Hobr.  Cat.,  p.  107.  Hain,  125GS. 

14.  (One  leaf  of)  Joiiannis  Lattebury  MoRALrsATiONES 
super  threnos  Jeremi?e.  IVitJiovt  jdace  or  irrintcrs  name 
(Oxonii,  Theod.  Piood  de  Colonia),  1482.  Folio. 

The  last  leaf  of  signature  F  detached  from  the  binding  of  a  book.  A 
complete  copy  on  vellum  is  to  be  found  in  tl)0  library  of  the  Chapter  of 
Westminster.    Tlio  University  Library  has  two  copies  on  paper. 

Bradshaw,  Bi'.l  '.ph.,  lOG,  this  leaf.  Cotton,  Typcg.  Gaz.,  212. 

Dibdin,  Bibl.  ;^,-nc.,  iv.  355.  Panzer,  iv.  U^.  Hain,  9\)2b. 


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15.  (Two  leaves  of)  Hor.e  ad  usum  EcclesT/E  Sauis- 
BUMENSis.  WitJiOut 2:>l('-ce,  date,  or  irrinters  name  {Lojidini,  ti/pis 
Willelmi  de  Maddiiiia  apud  Flete  bridge,  circa  l-iS4-).  Octavo. 

One  of  these  leaves,  forming  the  commencement  of  the  second  part  of 
this  very  early  book  of  "Sarum  Hours,"  has  a  wootlcut  border.  There  are 
17  lines  to  the  p;ige.  Ames  speaks  of  a  copy  of  a  small  book  of  devotion 
with  the  same  types  as  the  "Xova  Statuta."'  It  probably  was  a  complete 
copy  of  this  Edition.    Presented  by  Mr  Bradshaw. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  p.  107,  these  leaves,  Ames,  78. 

Johnson,  Typographia  i.  219. 

16.  (One  leaf  of)  Missale  RoMANUil  Kurmherge  per 
Georgium  StucJis  de  Sidtzhach,  1484.   Quarto.    [8  x  6i-  inches.] 

This  Roman  Missal,  adapted  for  the  use  of  the  order  of  S.  Francis,  is 
printed  in  red  and  black  in  two  columns  of  30  lines  each. 

This  leaf  is  identical  with  folio  203  in  the  copy  of  this  Missal  on  vellum 
at  the  British  Museum  (C.  9.  a.  4).  The  University  Library  has  a  copy  on 
paper.    Presented  by  the  writer  in  1875. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  I.  p.  S3.  Panzer,  ii.  197.  Hain,  11384. 

17.  Missale  Frisingense,  jyer  Jo.  Sensemchnidt  de  Ba- 
henherga.  2  Kal.  Sept.  (Aug.  31),  1487.  Folio.  [loxlOJ 
inclies.]    Has  12  leaves  of  vellum. 

The  i\Iissal  according  to  the  use  of  Freisingen  in  Bavaria.  Purchased. 
Panzer,  I.  143.       Hain,  11302. 

18.  Acta  SYNODORij?.r  Herbipolexsium,  1452  et  1453. — 

CONSTITUTIONES    ECCLESI/E    HeRBIPOLENSIS. — ReFORMATIONES 

RuDOLPHi  Enscopi  anno  1470.— S.  Thom.e  de  Aquino  de  peri- 
culis  contingentibus  circa  sacramentum.— Statuta  GOTFRIDI 
Episcopi  1447  (in  German).  Without  j)lace,  date,  or  p)rinters 
name.  [Wurtzhurg,  Geo.  Beyser,im-~rD)  Folio.  [10Jx7-J 
inches.]  1st  part  114,  2nd  part  4,  3rd  part  18,  in  all  13G 
leaves. 

Printed  in  Gothic  type,  32  lines  to  the  page.  KudohT,  Bp.  of  \Vurtz- 
burg,  died  in  1495,  and  this  copy,  the  only  one  known  on  vellum,  appears 
to  have  been  printed  for  his  special  use.  It  bears  the  Avell-known  device 
of  one  of  his  successors,  ''Julius  dei  gr-  Ep'  Wirceh  an  Francie  orient: 
dux:'  stamped  on  the  gilt  edges  of  the  book,  which  is  in  its  original  vellum 
binding  and  is  in  perfect  condition. 

Not  from  B's'i-tp  Moore's  collection. 

BradshaW;  in  L.blioph.,  103.    This  copy. 

Panzer,  i.  -jci.  jNo.  d.      Dibdin,  Bibl.  Spcnc.  iv.  oOS. 


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19.  Mlssale  Xaxctonexse.  Parisiis  per  JoJtamcm  ITvj- 
onan  in  vico  clausi  hrunelli  prope  scholas  decretorum,  15  Apr. 
1491.    Folio.    [12|x  9  inches.]    18G  leaves. 

This  very  fine  copy  of  the  Missal  according  to  the  use  of  Saintes  (in 
France)  is  the  only  one  of  this  edition  known,  either  on  velhun  or  paper. 
The  first  slieet  contains  no  more  than  the  Calendar  of  six  leaves,  so  it  is 
possible  that  the  first  and  eighth  leaves  are  Avanting.  The  ca[)itals  are 
illuminated  ;  it  ^vas  one  of  Bishop  Moore's  books,  and  in  the  list  of  some  of 
his  printed  books  in  Bernard's  Catalogue  of  MSS.  (1G97),  it  is  justly  stated 
that  both  the  vellum  and  the  type  are  most  beautiful. 

Cat.  MSS.  Angl.  Ilib.  ii.  38 1,  no.  71.    This  coprj. 

Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.,  i.  p.  122.    TJds  copy. 

Bradshaw,  in  Biblioph.  106.    Tlds  copy. 

Panzer,  ii.  295.       Hain,  11438.       Brunet,  lii.  17G6. 

20.  Yekardi  (Caholi)  Histoeia  B.etica,  acta  kidis 
Romanis,  11  Kal.  Maii,  1492.  At  the  end  Makcellint  Elegia. 
Eomce  per  Euchnrium  Silher  alias  Franclc.  7  Mart.  1493. 
Quarto.    [8|  x  5^-  inches.]    40  leaves. 

This  is  the  copy  specially  prepared  for,  and  presented  by  the  author  to, 
tlie  Spanish  Ambassador  at  the  Court  of  Rome,  Avhose  arms  are  painted 
in  the  elaborate  illuminated  border  surrounding  the  first  page ;  on  the 
blank  page  opposite  is  the  dedication,  in  manuscript : — Bererendo... 
Joanni  MccUnoj  E}>hcopo  AstorkensiP  It  is  in  fine  condition.  This 
M'ork  is  a  drama  in  Latin  prose,  the  subject  of  \vhich  is  the  Conquest  of 
(Iranada,  in  l-i;i2,  by  Ferdinand  and  Isabella.  At  the  end  of  the  volume 
is  a  song  or  vaudeville  in  Italian,  with  the  musical  notation  engraved  on 
■Avood.  This  is  Bishop  Moore's  copy,  a  similar  one  is  in  Lord  Spencers 
library  but  in  bad  condition. 

Cat.  MSS.  Angl.  Ilib.  it.  381,  no.  112.    This  c^py. 

Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.  iiL  133.    TJds  copy. 

Bradshaw  (Biblioph.),  125.    This  copy.  Panzer,  ii.  508,  no.  525. 

Ilain,  15941.  Dibdin,  Cassano  Cat.  123. 

21.  Verardi  (Mahcellixi)  Tragicomedia,  Fernandus 
Servatus.  Without  place,  date,  or  printer's  name  [Rojiuc, 
E.  Silher,  1493).    Quarto.    [SJ  x  5-J  inches.]    IG  leaves. 

This  copy  is  bound  with  the  preceding,  and  is  evidently  from  tlic  same 
press.  The  author  was  a  nephew  of  the  last  mentioned.  The  first  page 
has  also  an  illuminatcil  border. 

Bp.  Moore's  copy. 

Cat.  MSS.  Angl.  Mib.  li.  381,  no.  113.    This  copy. 
Bradshaw,  Bibliophile,  125.    This  cop,y.         liain,  15943. 


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22.  MisSALE  Brixinknse  (Augustf.e  Vindeliconnn)  per 
Erhardum  Ratdolt,  16  Kal.  Septembr.  (17  Aug.)  1493.  Folio. 
[l^  X  U  inches.]    Has  6  leaves  of  vellum. 

^  Tlie  Missal  according  to  the  use  of  Brixcu  (in  the  Tyrol).  There  is  tlio 
printer's  large  device  at  the  end,  and  at  tlie  beginning  of  the  volume  is  a 
very  large  emblazoned  coat  of  arms  the  full  size  of  the  page.  The  ]i]ace  of 
printing  is  not  given  in^  the  imprint,  a  portion  of  which  runs  as  follows : 
"  per  Erhardum  Ratdolt." 
Purchased. 

Panzer,  i.  120.         Hain,  11273. 

23.  Hor.e  ad  usum  EccLESiiE  Sarisbuiiiensis,  without 
phace,  date,  or  printer's  name.  {Westminster,  ■printed  in  Ctwions 
house  hj  Wynhjn  de  Worde,  about  1494.)  Quarto.  [7J  x  5^ 
inches.]    16G  leaves. 

This  book  of  Hours,  after  the  use  of  Sarum,  or  Salisbury,  is  printed 
•with  Caxton's  types,  with  22  lines  to  the  page,  and  has  woodcuts,  and 
woodcut  borders  to  every  page,  which  though  variously  disposed,  arc  tho 
same  as  in  the  "  Fifteen  Oo's,"  the  unique  book  with  borders  printed  by 
Caxton  preserved  in  the  British  Museum.  The  typo  is  the  same  as  that 
used  in  the  "  Scala  Perfectionis,"  printed  l)y  W.  do  Worde  in  14!)-l.  Tho 
volume  is  imperfect  at  the  beginning  and  end.  This  is  the  first  edition  of 
the  Primer  published  in  England.  The  complete  copy  at  Lambeth  states 
it  to  be  "Enprynted  by  the  commaundcmcntys  of  the  moost  hye  and 
vertuous  pryncesse  our  lyege  lady  Elizabeth,  by  the  grace  of  God  (picne  of 
Euglond  and  of  fraunce  and  also  of  the  ryght  hye  and  moost  noble  prynccsso 
Margarcte  modcr  to  our  Souerayn  lord  the  Kyng,  &c."  Some  of  the 
prayers  are  in  English. 

This  copy  contains  various  autographs  of  the  Parr  family,  including  one 
of  Katherine  Parr  (afterwards  Queen  of  Henry  VllL),  who  has  written  ou 
the  l)ottom  margin  of  one  of  the  pages  :— 

Oncle  wan  you  do 

On  this  loke, 

I  pray  you  rcme>>iber  wo 

Wrote  thys  in  your  bo(ke). 

Your  louuingc  nys,  Kathcrin  Parr. 

From  Bp.  Moore's  library. 

24.  Another  copy  of  the  same  Edition. 

Also  on  veli'-nn  and  from  J^ishop  Moore's  library,  but  less  complete. 
The  only  other  similar  copy  is  the  complete  one  above  referred  to,  with 
four  pages  reprinted,  but  witliout  date,  in  the  Lambeth  library.  Tho 
British  Muscuu;  has  an  imperfect  i)aper  copy  of  an  edition  wanting 


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79  leaves,  page  for  page  tlie  same  as  this  and  in  tlio  same  type,  only 
different  in  setting  up  throughout. 

Camb.  Antiquar.  Soc.  Proceedings,  xi.  9.    These  copies. 

Brarlshaw  (Biblioph.),  108.    These  copies. 

Maitland  (S.  R.),  Karly  books  at  Lambeth,  pp.  22S  and  394. 

25.  HoR.E  AD  usuM  EccLESi^  Saeisbupjensis.  Parisius 
per  Philippum  Figouchet,  2^}V  Symone  Vostre.  IG  ^laii,  1408. 
Octavo.    [6§  X  4^  inches.]    128  leaves. 

Tlie  "  Ahnanac"  is  from  1488— LIOS.  There  are  2G  lines  to  the  page. 
The  "woodcuts  and  woudcut  borders  are  uncolourcd.  Tigouchut's  device  is 
on  the  title;  there  are  13  largo  cuts  ;  the  borders,  Avhicli  inCiUde  a  Dance 
of  Death,  are  varied,  and  are  the  best  of  rigouchet  and  Vostre,  who  ex- 
celled all  others  in  these  enrichments.  The  last  two  leaves  have  prayers 
in  English.  From  Bishop  Moore's  library.  Other  copies,  on  vellum,  are  in 
the  Gough  and  Douce  collections  at  the  Bodleian,  Oxford,  in  the  library 
of  M.  Firmin  Didot,  at  Paris,  from  the  Libri  sale,  in  the  British  Museum, 
and  in  the  Fitzwilliam  ]\Iuscum.    See  post,  No.  74. 

Cat.  MSS.  Aug.  Hib.  ii.  3S1,  no.  116.    This  copy. 

Bradshaw  (Bibliopliile),  108.     This  copy. 

Lowndes  (Bohn),  nil.    This  ccqry. 

Panzer,  ii.  230.  Brunet,  V.  15S2,  No.  40.  llain,  88G3. 

26.  Hob.t;  SECUNDUM  USUM  RoMxVNUM.  Favis,  Thielman 
Kerver  pour  Gillet  Ilewacle,  5  Janvier,  1503.  Octavo.  x  ol 
inches.]    98  leaves. 

The  large  woodcuts,  18  in  number,  are  illuminated,  but  the  woodcut 
borders  are  left  uncolourcd.  The  Almanac  has  been  erased,  and  a  minia- 
ture painting  of  the  Virgin  and  Child  supplies  its  place.  Each  page  has 
29  lines.  Folios  1  and  16  are  wanting.  Bound  in  purple  morocco.  Pre- 
sented in  1870  by  the  writer. 

Brunet,  v.  1618,  No.  174. 

27.  MissALE  Sarum,  without  place  or  printers  name, 
(Paris)  impensa  Anthonii  Verard  mercatoris  Farisiensis,  29 
Jan.,  1504,  Folio.  [13^-  x  O-J  inches.]  288  leaves,  4  of 
vellum. 

The  title  is  wanting  in  this  copy  of  the  Salisbury  Missal. 
Dickinson.    Service  Books,  IG.    This  copy. 
Lowndes  (Bohn  cd.),  1576.    This  copy. 

28.  MisSALE  IlAMBERGENSE.  Joliamies  Ffeyl  incola  civitatis 
Bamhergensis,  3  1^  cbr.,  1506.  Folio.  [I'll  x  82-  inches.]  18G 
leaves,  10  of  vellu  a. 


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The  Canon  which  comprises  tlie  velhim  leaves  in  this  Edition  of  llic 
Bamberg  Missal  is  printed  in  very  large  Missal  type.  This  copy  him  been 
acquired  by  purchase. 

Bradshaw,  ]>iblioph.,  106.    This  cojiy. 

Panzer,  vi.  17 "2. 

29.  John  Fisher  (Bishop  of  EocHESTER^.  Treatyse 

CONCERNYNGE  THE  FRy:YTFULL  SAYINGS  OF  DaVYD  THE  KyNGE, 
IN  THE  SEVEN  PENYTENCYALL  PSALMES,  cleuyded  in  sevoil 
Sermons.  London,  Wi/nhun  de  Worde,  in  the  flete  strete  at 
the  signe  of  y"'  Sonne,''  IG  June,  1508.  Quarto.  [7\  x  inches.] 
146  leaves. 

Bp.  Moore's  copy.  The  only  other  copy  in  this  state  is  Mr  Grcnville's 
copy  at  the  British  Museum,  which,  however,  seems  to  have  only  142 
leaves. 

Dibdin.    Typog.  Antiq.,  it.  138.    This  copi/. 

llartsliorne,  148.    This  copii.         Bradshaw,  Biblioph.    This  copy. 
Botfield  (B.),  Bibl.  membr.  Brit,  sub  anuo...  77//**  coirij. 
Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.  i.  p.  148.         Bibli.  Grenvill.,  i.  245. 

30.  MissALE  SxVRUM.  In  Parisiorum  Acadeniia  opera 
Wolfgangi  Hopylii,  mipeiisis  Francisci  Byrhnan  7  Febr.,  1511 
(loio—ll),  et  10  kal.  Apr.  1510  (23  Mar.  1510—11).  Folio. 
[12g  X  8  J-  inclies.]    816  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

The  first  date  is  in  the  imprint,  the  second  on  the  title.  Bean 
Iluldsworth's  copy,  bequeathed  in  lG4;),see  umlcr  No.4U,  p.ost.  Abp.  Laud's 
copy,  wholly  on  veUum,  is  in  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  «ee  also  No.  122 
and  149,  post. 

Dickinson,  IG.    This  copy.  Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    This  copy. 

Gough,  11.,  Topography,  ir.  332. 

31.  MissALE  Leodiense.  In  Parisiorum  academia,  a 
Wolfgango  Hopylio  impends  Francisci  Byrchnan  1  Sept.,  1513. 
Folio.    [11-J  X      inclies.]    300  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

Bishop  Moore's  copy.    A  similar  one  of  this  edition  of  the  Licgo 
Missal  is  in  the  National  library  at  Paris. 
Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  106.    This  copy. 
Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.,  p.  202,  No.  292. 

32.  MisSALE  Trajectense.  In  opido  Lcydersi  pari'vim 
Ilollandice  impressor  Uhliopola  Johannes  Zeverinus,  kal.  Jun., 
1514.    Folio.    '1 2 J  X  8  inches.]    296  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

Bp.  Moore's  -m-iv.  ^Another  copy  of  this  edition  of  the  Utrecht  .Missal 
appeared  in  a  Catalogue  of  Jo.  Palinck  of  Brussels,  1S60. 

Bradshaw,  Biliioph.,  lOG.    This  copy.         Brunet,  iii.  17G7. 


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33.  MissALE  Sarum.  In  Parisiorum  academia,  opera 
Wolfgangii  Ilopijlii  inipensis  FrancUci  Byrchinan,  28  Nov., 
1514.    Folio.  X  8^-  indies.]    314  leaves. 

A  very  noble  copy  of  the  Salisbury  Missal,  in  beautiful  condition  and 
printed  on  the  finest  vellum.  The  title  is  illuminated,  and  the  initials 
throughout  are  delicately  shaded  with  gold.  There  are  several  woodcut 
borders  uncoloured.  It  is  from  Bishop  Moore's  library.  A  copy  on  paper 
is  in  Emmanuel  College  library ;  another  copy,  on  paper,  was  priced  at 
£110  in  Mr  Quaritch's  large  Catalogue,  1874,  jN'o.  1349. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    T]lIs  cwpy, 

Dickinson,  17.    TIds  copy.   But  it  is  not  stated  to  be  on  vellum. 

34.  MiSSALE  Eatisponense.  In  Augusta  Vinddkorum 
(luithout  ^;?"W/fe7^'5  name)  expensis  et  surnptihus  Jor<ji  Batdult 
Civis  Augustensis,  5  Jan.,  1515.  Quarto.  [10  x  7-}  inches.] 
348  leaves,  12  of  vellum. 

This  copy  of  the  Ratisbon  Missal  has  the  w^oodcuts  in  the  Canon  of  the 
Mass  illuminated,  and  is  in  the  original  stamped  vellum  binding,  with 
knotted  thongs  attached  to  the  principal  divisions  of  the  book,  rurcliased. 
Another  precisely  similar  copy  is  in  the  possession  of  the  writer. 

Graesse  Tresor,  iv.  648. 

35.  iEoiDii  (de  Columna)  Eomani,  Tractatus  Aureus 

DE  FORMATIONE  CORPORIS  HUMANI  in  utero,  pliilo.^opliis  ot 
lucdicis  nec  non  Theologis  et  Canonistis  vaklo  utilis  et  neces- 
sarius...correctus  per... Johannem  Benedictum  Moncctuni  de 
Castilione  Aretino.  nVithoiit  2)^(^ce  or  year,  l^aris),  Funset  le 
Preux  (1515).    Quarto.    [7^  x  5  inches.]    50  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter,  48  lines  to  the  page. 

On  the  first  page  is  the  printer's  large  device.  The  dedication  to  King 
Henry  VIII.  is  dated  Paris,  9  Feb.,  1515.  On  the  last  page  is  Tumul- 
t2iarium  Partegyricum  Caronen  Fr.  Lodomci  Slhl'i  Mauri  Philohgi 
SariayiV  addressed  to  Henry  de  Hornby,  then  blaster  of  St  Peter's 
College,  at  Cambridge,  and  sometime  Chancellor  of  the  Lady  i\Iargarct, 
Countess  of  Richmond.  Bp.  iMoore's  copy.  The  University  Library  has 
also  a  copy  on  paper.    The  above  seems  the  only  one  known  on  vellum. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.;,  123,  this  cojiy, 

36.  MissALE  Ep,oracense  Opera  Petri  Olivier  Fvthomagi 
commoi^antis,  S'U'injjlihus  et  expensis  Johaniiis  Gachet  mercitor  is 
lihrarii  juxta  pri-cfaiam  ecdcsiam  {Ehoracensem)  comniorantis, 


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5  Febr.,  151G.  Folio.  [12^  x  S^-  inches.]  200  leaves,  2  of 
vellum. 

The  woodcut  capital,  beginning  the  word  Missale  in  the  title  of  this  rare 
Edition  of  the  York  Missal,  is  very  large,  and  is  an  imitation  of  the  largest 
engrossed  capitals  of  tlie  time.  It  contains  a  scroll  witli  the  printcTs 
name,  M.  P.  liOLIYIER. 

A  facsimile  is  given  b}^  Noel  Humphreys  in  his  Hist,  of  Printing.  In  this 
copy  the  corners  of  some  of  the  leaves  are  mended.  It  is  from  Bp.  Moore's 
Collection.  Only  four  other  copies  seem  known.  They  are  :  a  recently  dis- 
covered copy  at  Pembroke  College  (see  Xo.  9G  post);  2  copies  in  tlie 
Cough  and  Douce  Collections  at  Oxford;  and  another  at  Stonyhurst  College. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  lOS,  tJds  copy. 

Dickinson,  19,  llih  copy. 

Lowndes,  157-3,  tills  copy. 

Cough,  Topograi^hy,  ii.  425,  this  copy. 

Brunet,  iii.  176S. 

37—38.  Livius  T.  Patayinus  Historicus  cum  L.  Flori 
Epitome,  indice  copioso  et  aunotatis  iu  libros  Yii.  belli  Macc- 
(lonici.  MogunticB,  in  cudibus  loaniiis  ScJieffer,  Nov.  15 IS. 
Folio.    [14  X  9J  inclies.]    4G0  leaves,  bound  in  two  volumes. 

Printed  in  Poman  character,  and  in  fine  condition.  Tliere  are  hand- 
some woodcut  initials,  and  an  elaborate  woodcut  border  to  the  title.  This 
magnificent  work  is  entitled  to  rank  amongst  the  finest  of  vcHum  printed 
books.    Bp.  Moore's  copy. 

Mr  Bradshaw  states  that  the  description  given  in  Yan  Praet  is  inexact, 
and  he  gives  a  colhition  in  the  Bibliophile. 

The  only  other  copy  on  vellum  is  in  the  Imperial  Library,  Yienna. 

Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.,  i.  p.  15.    This  copy. 

Beloe's  Anecdotes,  iv.  47.    This  coj^y. 

Dibdin's  Classics,  ii.  165.    This  copy. 

Bradhhaw,  Biblioph.,  126.  This  copy.  Ilartshorne,  43.  This  copy. 
Panzer,  vii.  411. 

39.  Des  Groux  (Petri)  Oratio  de  dtyi  Ludoyice 
Francorum  Regis  piceconiis.  Ejusdem  sermo  de  cterna  et 
temporali  verb!  generatione.  Without  p)lace  or  jirinters  name 
[Paris),  Veneunt  in  cedihus  Joannis  Gorinontii  ad  i?isiane 
Geminorum  Gipporum  (1519).  Quarto.  [7:J  x  5.J  inches.] 
74  leaves. 

Printed  in  Iloman  type,  27  lines  to  the  page. 

The  dedication  to  Cardinal  Louis  de  Bourbon,  dated  "ex  rcgali  hido 
Navarrico  13  Ka'  Apr.  1519,"  has  a  large  woodcut  initial,  bearing  the  name 


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and  arms  of  Francis  of  Clevcs,  to  wliom  the  autlior  was  tutor  at  tliat  time. 
The  work  seems  quite  unknown  to  bibliographers.  Tliis  copy  c:imc  from 
the  Colbert  Collection.  It  bears  on  its  title  "  Bibliothccie  Cclbcrtinir." 
It  also  has  the  library  mark  of  "Charles  Barlow,  Esq.,  of  EnuDiinuel 
College,  Cambridge,  17..."  and  was  presented  to  the  University  in  1738  by 
William  Thurlbourn,  the  well-known  Cambridge  bookseller, 

Ilartshorne,  46.    This  copy.        Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  125.    This  copy. 

40.  MiSSALE  SAitUM.  Londlni,  per  FiicJutrduin  Pynson  in 
flete  strete  apud  divum  Diinstanum,  9  kal.  Jan.,  15*20  Dec, 
,1520).    Folio.    [15  X  10.^  inches.]    210  leaves. 

This  copy  was  specially  printed  for  the  Chapels  or  Chantries,  founded 
by  Sir  Robert  Rede,  Lord  Chief  Justice,  in  1509,  one  of  the  executors  of 
Henry  VII.,  and  founder  of  the  lectureship  still  known  by  his  name  at 
Cambridge.  His  arms  with  those  of  his  wife — On  a  bend  wavy  3  bitterns 
for  Rede,  impaling  quarterly  1  and  4,  aFess  between  3  Boars'  heads  couped. 
2  and  3  achevr.  between  three  bugle  horns  for  Al[)hegh,  with  an  Inscription 
below,  "Orate  specialiter  pro  animabus  Roberti  Reed  militis  nuper  capitalis 
Justiciarii  dili  Regis  de  Co  i  baco  ct  Margaretae  consortis  sue,  pareiitum, 
amicorum  et  benefactorum  suorum  omniuniqne  lideliuni  dcfvuictorum  Qui 
quidem  Robertus  obiit  anno  diii  8  Jun.MDXVIlI."— are  printed  on  a  curtain 
of  vellum  placed  over  the  Royal  Arms  on  the  verso  of  folio  9.  This  special 
Inscription  is  also  printed  below  the  woodcut  of  the  Crucifixion,  and  is 
the  only  authority  for  the  exact  date  of  Rede's  death.  This  magnificent 
volume  is  finely  printed,  and  has  woodcut  initials.  Nothing  can  exceed 
the  brilliancy  of  the  vellum  and  the  printing,  unless,  pcrhai)s,  it  be  the  (if 
possible)  finer  coin*  in  the  Fcpysian  Library.  See  130,  post.  The  entry  of 
St  Edward  the  Confessor's  name  is  struck  out  of  the  Calendar. 

This  copy  formed  a  part  of  the  large  library  of  about  10,000  volumes 
bequeathed  to  the  University  in  1649  by  Dr  Richard  Iloklsworth,  Master 
of  Emmanuel,  and  Lady  Margaret  Frofessor  as  well  as  Dean  of  \Vorcester. 
The  writer  is  informed  by  Mr  Coxe,  Bodley's  librarian,  that  a  similar  c()j)y 
with  Rede  Inscriptions,  is  at  the  Bodleian.  Other  copies  of  the  ordinary 
edition  on  vellum  arc  at  Emmanuel  Coll.,  post  (No.  148),  at  Magdalene 
Coll.,  post  (No.  130),  referred  to  above;  and  at  St  John's  Coll.,  Oxford. 
A  copy  in  private  hands  was  shown  at  the  Loan  Collection  of  the  Caxton 
Celebration  in  1877,  No.  262.  The  copy  in  the  National  Library,  Paris,  is 
on  paper,  with  4  leaves  only  of  vellum. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    T}ds  copy.  I^ickinson,  17.    This  copy. 

Van  Fraet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  226.  Cotton,  Typog.  Gaz ,  344. 

Dibdin,  Typog.  Antiq.,  ii.  425.         Ames,  p.  121. 

41.  Bacul:  OiTRxVTORUM.  Hi  sunt  per  quos  dcffenclere 
potuerunt  oves  yi'ji  commissas.  (Paris,  about  1520).  Qiiaito. 
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Tliis  is  part  of  an  Edition  of  Statuta  Synodalia  printed  in  Gothic  letter, 
ill  Latin  and  Frencli. 

Presented  in  1S70  by  the  writer. 

42.  The  Body  of  Policy.  London.  John  Shot  "withont 
Xeiuegate  in  saijnt  Pallcers  jyarijsshe,"  17  May,  1521.  Quarto. 
[Sf  X  5f  inches.]    90  l^eaves. 

This  is  a  translation  from  the  French  original  of  Christine  derisan,thc 
learned  authoress  of  the  14th  centviry,  and  is  the  only  known  specimen  of 
John  Skot's  printing  on  vellum.  Ames,  without  doubt,  had  this  copy  under 
his  notice  (though  he  does  not  specially  refer  to  it)  wlien  he  drew  up  the 
description  of  this  book.  There  are  woodcuts,  the  pages  are  ruled  with 
red,  and  the  initials  illuminated.  From  Bp.  ^looro's  Collection.  A  copy  of 
the  same  translation  in  manuscript  is  to  found  in  the  Iloldsworth  Collec- 
tion in  the  University  Library. 

Hartshorne,  1G5.   This  cojnj.       Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  123.    This  copy. 

Herbert  xVmes,  317.  Dibdin,  Typogr.  Antiq.,  iii.  74. 

43.  ToxsTALLi  (CuTHBERTi)  De  Arte  Subputandi  libri 
quattuor.  Londini  in  (xdihus  Ilichardi  Fynsoni,  rid.  Id.  Oct. 
(14  Oct.),  1522.    Quarto.    [10^  x  7f  inches.]    204  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  character.  There  are  fine  woodcut  initials,  and  a 
rich  woodcut  border  surrounds  the  title,  in  which  the  initials  of  the  de- 
signer, liana  Holbein,  appear.  It  is  in  the  finest  condition.  This  book 
was  a  farewell  to  the  sciences  on  the  author's  appointment  to  the  see  of 
London  (see  the  rrcface),  and  is  decidedly  the  most  classical  that  ever  was 
written  on  the  subject  in  Latin.  The  author  had  read  everything  on  the 
subject  in  every  language  which  he  knew,  as  he  avers  in  his  dedicatory 
letter  to  Sir  Thos.  More,  and  had  spent  much  time,  he  says,  ad  ursi  e.v- 
emplum  in  licking  Avhat  he  found  into  shape.  This  copy  was  given  to  the 
University  in  L528  by  the  author,  Bishop  Tonstall,  and  bears  his  autograph 
note  of  gift,  "  C'tfhhcrtus  London  icsis  eps  sUidiosis  dono  dedit."  A  similar 
copy  is  at  Christ's  College  (see  post  No.  116),  and  a  third  at  Corpus  Christi 
Coll.,  Oxford. 

Hartshorne,  161.  77i/5  co;)?/.  Dibdin,  Library  Comp,  573.  This  copy. 
Dibdin,  Typograph.  Antiq,,  ii.  478.  Dibdin,  Bibliog.  Dec.  ii.  36S. 

De  Morgan  (xV.),  Arithmetical  Books,  13. 

44.  MissALE  Pataa'IENSE.  Venetiis  in  (cdihv.s  Petri 
Liechtenstein,  impensis  Lucce  AUantse  hihliopoUn  Viennensis, 
1522.    Qaar^\    [8^  x  G  inches.]    370  leaves,  6  of  vellum. 

This  copy  o\'  i!ic  Passau  Missal  has  a  fine  device  of  the  printer,  and  was 
acquired  by  purciiasc. 

Bradshaw,  Bi^  iioph.,  106.    This  copy.    Gracsse,  iv.  548. 


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45.  MisSALE  Leodiense.  Parisils  per  Wolf gan  gum 
Hopylium  impressorem,  impensis  Francisci  Byrchman  hibliopohe 
4  kal.  Dec.  (28  Nov.),  1523.  Folio.  [12J  x  8 J  inches.]  410 
leaves. 

This  most  magTiificent  copy  of  the  Liege  Missal  is  printeil  on  the  finest 
velkim  ill  large  Missal  type.  The  initials  are  gracefully  illmninatetl,  the 
larger  ones  containing  nihiiaturcs,  the  whole  painted  in  the  best  style  of 
the  art  of  the  period.  The  large  woodcut  of  the  Crucifixion  opposite  the 
commencement  of  the  Canon  has  been  carefully  removed,  and  is  replaced 
by  a  fresh  leaf  of  vellum,  blank  on  the  one  side,  and  embellished  on  the 
other  with  a  large  and  beautifully  painted  miniature  of  the  same  subject, 
executed  entirely  by  hand.  It  is  in  every  way  a  splendid  volume,  and 
from  its  profuse  decorations  might  almost  be  mistaken  for  an  elaborately 
ornamented  manuscript  Missal.  Even  the  Edition  seems  to  be  unknown, 
and  this.  Bishop  Moore's  copy,  may  be  therefore  considered  unique. 

Ilartsliorne,  45.    This  copy,   Bradshaw,  Biblioph.  T/ds  cajjij. 

46.  MiSSALE  Sarum.  Li  ParrJnswrum  acadcniia  {without 
printers  name),  impensis  Francisci  Begnault  llhrarii  Jurati  uni- 
versitatis  Parisiensis  in  vice  sancti  Jacohi  ad  intersignium 
Flephantis,  p)ennlt  Oct  (30),  1526.  Folio.  [12^  x  inches.] 
304  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

This  was  Bp.  Moore's  copy.    Another  is  at  the  Bodleian. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    This  copy.         Dickinson,  17.    This  copy. 

Gough,  Topc^graphy,  ii.  341. 

47.  MissALE  Sarum.  Parisiis  (without  2;?i?7f(??-'5  name), 
impensis  Francisci  Begnault  lihrarii  jurati  universitatls  Parisien- 
sis in  vico  sancti  Jacohi  in  inter signio  Elephantis  iilt.  Mai.,  1532. 
Folio.    [12||  X  8^^  inches.]    804  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

This  copy  formed  a  part  of  the  valuable  bequest  of  Bean  Iloldsworth 
in  1649.    (See  also  under  No,  40.) 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    This  copy.  Dickinson,  IS.    This  copy. 

48—49.  OviDii  Nasonls  (P.)  Opera.  Venetiis,  in  cedihus 
hoireduni  Aldi  (Manutii)  et  Andreai  (Asulani)  Soceri,  1533 — 4. 
Octavo.  [Gi  X  4  inches.]  3  vols.  1st  vol  32  and  204  leaves  ; 
2nd  vol.  12  and  ISO  leaves ;  3rd  vol.  24  and  232  leaves. 

Printed  in  Italic  letter,  30  lines  on  a  page. 

This  copy,  the  <.n!y  one  on  vellum  known,  belonged  to  the  celebrated 
scholar,  N.  Heinsius,  and  was  sold  with  liis  library  in  1CS2.  It  next 
belonged  to  Ilcncf- Eiuch,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  whoso  name  is  ou  the 


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title-page,  and  to  ^rliom  Bishop  :\roore  vras  tutor,  and  came  into  ll.e 
Library  with  the  books  of  that  bisliop.  The  tliird  volume  .vas  stolen  soon 
after  It  came  to  Cambridg-c,  and  passed  Avitli  Dr  llawHnson's  Collection  to 
the  Jiodlenm.  One  of  the  volumes  still  at  Caml^ridge  lias  the  Aldinc 
Anchor  stamped  in  gold  on  both  sides  of  the  old  calf  binding. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.    This  copy. 

Renouard,  Ann.  des  Aide,  2nd  Ed.,  i.  260. 

Cotton's  Typographical  Gaz.,  34,3. 

Dibdin's  Introd.  Classics,.ii.  2G5. 

50.  Mtssale  Sarum.  ParisUs,  impr.  in  vico  Sancti  Jacohi 
in  cEcUhus  Francisci  Recpmult  Uhrarii  jnrati  Universitatis  Par  {si- 
ensis,  1534.  Folio.  [13  inches  x  9  inches.]  304  leaves,  2  of 
vellum. . 

This  volume  was  purchased.  Another  copy  seems  to  be  in  the  Britisli 
Museum. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  107.    This  copy,    Dickinson,  IS. 

51.  SiDDUR,  OR  Jewish  Daily  Prayers  after  the  Homan 
llite.    Bologna,  2.97  (a.D.  1537.)    Octavo.    [54  x  3 J  inches.] 

Printed  in  Hebrew  character.  There  is  an  elaborate  woodcut  border  to 
the  title.  This  copy  was  recently  acquired  by  purchase.  Similar  copies  are 
in  the  Bodleian  and  British  Museum. 

De  Bossi,  Ann.  heb.  typ.,  MDI.—MDXL.,  p.  39,  Xo;  253. 

Steinschneider,  Cat.,  No.  2074. 

Brit.  Mus.  Cat.  Hebr.  Books,  p.  483. 

52.  MissALE  Tornacense.  (Without  place  or  printers 
name)  iwpensis  Michaelis  IliUenii  Antverpice  24  ]\[art. 
1540.    Folio,    [l^  X  Si  inches.]    274  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

Bp.  Moore's  copy.  There  is  another  copy  of  this  Edition  of  the  Tournay 
Missal  in  the  National  Library,  Paris.  Van  Praet  quotes  it  as  printed  at 
Antwerp. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  106.    TJiis  copy. 
Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  37,  No.  33. 


53 — 54.  La  Sainte  Bible.  Anvers,  par  Jean  Loe,  154S. 
Folio.    [15  X  10 J  inches.]    528  leaves,  bound  in  two  volumes. 

Printed  in  Gothic  letter,  with  woodcut  initials.  This  Edition  is  a 
translation  by  Jacques  le  Fevre  d'Estaples.  This  copy  has  on  the  second 
leaf  the  Royal  An  is  of  England,  illuminated  in  gold  and  colours,  and 
a  special  inscriptic  ;  King  Edward  VI.,  printed  in  red  and  black.  There 
are  woodcuts.    The  book  is  in  perfect  condition.   The  leaves  have  their 


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rough  edges  and  are  uncut,  and  it  formed  a  part  of  Bp.  Moore's  Lil>rary. 
A  similar  copy,  apparently  the  only  other  one  knoun,  and  having  a  special 
inscription  to  Lord  William  Paget,  Lord  Chamberlain  to  the  King,  is  in  the 
National  Library,  Paris. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  105.    TJiis  copy. 

A^an  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  37,  No.  33. 

Brunet,  i.  SS5. 

55.  Le  Livee  DES  Statuts  et  ordonances  de  Pordre  de 
Sainct  Michel.  Without  place,  date,  or  printer  s  name.  Paris, 
about  1550.    Quarto.    [8tV  x  6  inclios.]    -iO  leaves. 

This  copy  of  the  Rules  of  the  Military  Order  of  St  Michael,  founded  in 
1469  by  Louis  XI.,  was  presented  to  the  University  by  AVilliam  Thurlbourn, 
the  Cambridge  bookseller.  It  bears  the  price  mark,  10^-.  CJ.,  of  Tom 
Osborne,  the  well-known  bookseller,  who  furnished  the  shelves  of 
Dr  Rawlinson  and  of  many  other  collectors,  and  purchased  the  printed 
X^ortion  of  Lord  Barley's  splendid  library  in  1743. 

Similar  copies  are  at  the  Bodleian,  National  Library  Paris,  and  at 
several  other  places  abroad. 

H  art  shorn  e,  41.    This  cojvj. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  126.    TJds  copy. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  v.  p.  121.   No.  141. 

Cotton,  Typ.  Gaz.,  2nd  Ed.,  351. 

56.  Oratio  ad  Philippum  et  ^Iapiam  Keges  de  rcstituta 
in  x\ng]ia  relig-ionc.  Loranli,  apud  Antonium  Mariam  Bcr- 
gagne  Tz/p.  Jur.,  1555.    Quarto.    [SJ  x  6  inches.]    IG  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter,  23  lines  to  the  page.  Woodcut  device  on  title, 
and  woodcut  initials. 

Written  by  Antonio  Fiordibello,  of  Modena,  who  accompanied  Cardinal 
Pole  on  his  visit  to  England  as  papal  legate.  See  under  that  name  in  the 
Biblioteca  Modenese  of  Tiraboscbi,  vol,  ii.  pp.  2SS— 302.  Bp.  Moore's 
copy. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  125,    This  copy. 

Tiraboschi,  Bibl.  Moden.  ii.  301,  where  the  date  is  wrongly  given  as 
1545. 

57.  Missale  Augustense.  BiUvno.\  in  crdihus  Selaldi 
Mayer,  mevse  Julio,  1555.  Folio.  [1-i  x  9J  inches.]  Has 
8  leaves  of  vellum. 

The  Cardinal  V.iAio])  of  Augsburg  in  his  preface  remarks  that  all  the 
Missals  printed  in  the  diocese  before  his  time  had  been  dc^troved  throu-h 


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war  and  other  causes.  This  copy  of  the  Augsburj?  jMissal  is  printed  in  larf^'O 
type,  and  is  in  its  original  binding  of  oak  boards,  covered  with  stamped 
velhim,  with  bosses  and  clasps  complete.    Recently  purchased. 

A  copy  entirely  on  vellum  is  in  the  Royal  Library,  ]\Iunich. 

Van  Tract,  2nd  Cat.,  i.  p.  135.         Brunet,  iii,,  17GG. 

58.  MiSSALE  Saiium.  Parisiis,  tijpis  Joannis  Amazeur,  jiro 
Gidielmo  Merlin  super  pontem  ninnmidariorum  ad  sylvestris 
ho  minis  signum  e  regione  Jiorolugii  Palatii,  1555.  Folio. 
[13  J  X  9  inches.]    312  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

The  name  of  the  printer  docs  not  appear  in  the  title,  but  in  the  imprint. 
The  engravings,  two  in  number,  on  the  vellum  leaves  in  the  Canon  of  this 
Edition  of  the  Sarum  Missal  are  large  and  fine.  That  of  God  tlic  Father 
crowned  with  a  papal  tiara,  and  surrounded  by  the  Apostolic  symbols,  on 
the  second  velluni  leaf,  is  a  rare  one,  and  seldom  found  in  printed  ^lissals. 
The  1st  page  has  a  large  woodcut  of  St  George  and  the  Dragon,  and  the 
Arms  of  France  and  England.  On  the  title  of  this,  Bp.  I\Ioorc  s  copy,  is 
written  in  an  old  hand,  "Fray  for  ye  good  prospcrite  and  wellare  of  Richard 
Perkens  the  elder,  who  gave  this  Mass  Bookc  to  ye  parish  Church  oli" 
Sanct.  Fetr.  of  Tempsforde  28  day  of  Novr.  Anno  D.  1557."  Tcmpsford 
is  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 

Other  copies  are  at  British  Museum  (imperfect);  Nat.  Library,  Paris; 
Bodleian  and  Queen  s  Coll.,  Oxford;  and  see  Nos.  93,  109. 

Bradshaw,Biblioph.,  107.    This  copn.         Dickinson,  19. 

Herbert  Ames,  15S0.         Gough,  Typography,  ii.  35G. 

Van  Fraet,  1st  Cat,  i.  p.  228. 

59.  Hebrew  Pentateuch.  Srdnonetta,  Tobias  Foa,  317 
(a.d.  1557).    Duodecimo.    [4:}  x  3  inches.] 

Printed  in  Hebrew  type,  and  recently  purchased.    Other  copies  in  the 
same  state  are  in  the  British  Museum  and  Bodleian  Libraries. 
Van  Fraet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  12.  Cotton,  Typog.  Gaz.,  34G. 

Steinschneider  Cat.,  No.  149.         Biit.  Mus.  Cat.  Ilebr.  Books,  p.  108. 

60.  SiDDUR,  OR  Jewish  Daily  Prayers  after  tlie  Pom  an 
Kite.  Mantua,  Jakob  b.  Xaphtali  Kohen  g  Gazolo,  317  (a.jx 
1557).   Octavo.    [G  x  '±\  inclies.] 

Printed  in  Ilebrow  type.  The  title  is  encircled  by  a  woodcut  border. 
Mr  R.  L.  Bensly,  t  'lo  sub-librarian  of  the  University,  informed  the  writer 
that  no  copy  (»!'  ^'-^  Edition  is  to  be  found  in  the  Briti;-ih  Museum  or 
Boaieian   Librarlc,:,   that  though  SteiJischneider  iu  his  Caialoguc  of 


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Hebrew  books  mentions  it,  he  was  indebted  for  the  notice  to  De  Rossi,  and 
that  he  misdescribcs  the  rite,  wliich  is  Roman  not  Italian. 

De  Rossi,  Libri  staniputi,  p.  49. 

Steinschneider,  No.  2083. 

61.  De  Antiquitate  BrittaniC/E  Ecclesi.e  ct  Privilc- 
giis  Ecclesise  Cantuariensis,  cum  Archiepiscopis  cjusdem  70. 
LoncUni,  in  cedihus  Juhannis  Daij,  1572.  Folio.  [11  >^  8  inches.] 
261  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

This  work  was  written  by  Archbishop  Parker,  who  states  (sec  Strypc's 
Ahp.  Parker)  in  a  letter  accompanying  tlie  copy  sent  by  him  to  the  Lord 
Treasurer  Burleigh,  that  it  was  composed  in  his  leisure  hours.  It  is  also 
considered  the  earliest  instance  of  a  privately-j)rinted  book  in  England. 
The  two  vellum  leaves  are  the  principal  title  and  the  title  to  the  lives  of 
the  Archbishops;  these  and  the  capitals  are  illuminated.  The  volume  is 
ruled  throughout  with  red  lines.  It  does  not  contain  the  life  of  the 
Archbishop,  and  is  one  of  the  earlier  copies  issued.  The  title  is  enclosed 
by  the  rich  emblematic  woodcut  border  used  in  his  largest  works,  see  also 
post,  Nos.  102,  103,  104,  105,  106,  and  there  are  marginal  notes  in 
a  hand  of  the  time. 

Mr  Martin  enumerates  twenty-two  copies  in  all,  almost  all  entirely  of 
paper.  Such  copies  are  at  St  Peter's  College,  the  gift  of  Andrew  rernc, 
at  Corpus  Christi,  the  gift  of  Thomas  Baker,  the  Cambridge  antiqnary; 
and  another  and  later  copy  also  in  the  University  Library.  Lord  Spencer 
has  a  similar  copy  with  two  vellum  leaves.  The  copy  under  notice  belonged 
to  Bishop  Moore. 

J^Iartin  (J.),  Cat.  of  Priv.  pr.  books,  1,  7,  14.    Tlits  copy. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  12(5.    This  copy. 

Dibdin,  Typ.  Antiq.,  iv.  126. 

Strype,  Barker,  ii.  244. 

62.  Catalogus  Cancellarioruii,  Procancellariorum, 
PROCURATORU:\r,  ac  eorum  qui  in  Academia  Cantebrigiensi  ad 
gradum  Doctoratus  aspiraverunt  et  niimerus  omnium  gradua- 
tornm  1500- — 1571.  Without  place,  printers  name,  or  date 
{London,  John  Day,  1572).  Folio.  [11  x  8  inclics.]  27  leaves, 
2  of  vellum. 

Although  this  copy  is  bound  with  the  preceding  book,  it  is  a  distinct 
work,  as  may  be  seen  by  two  distinct  copies  given  by  Archbishop  Barker 
himself  to  the  libraries  where  they  may  now  be  found.  The  two  vellum 
leaves  are  illuminated,  and  are  the  title  and  that  bearing  the  plan  of  the 
schools. 

Bradshaw,  Bibliuph.,  127.    This  copy, 
Pibdiu,  Typ.  A'  tiq.,  iv.  127. 


UNIVERSITY  LIBRAllY. 


63.  Brouohton  (Hugh).  A  concent  of  Scripture  ( Tr?7//- 
out  ■place,  date,  or  printer  s  name,  London,  Gahriel  Sinisun  and. 
William  White,  1596.)  Quarto.  [9  x  G-^  inches.]  43  leaves, 
besides  four  leaves  of  paper. 

The  first  leaf  has  been  cauccllecl  and  has  been  replaced  by  an  cngi-avcd 
title.  On  leaf  7  is  an  engiaved  map  of  the  world.  The  other  plates  arc 
on  leaves  40 — 43,  which  ar6  printed  on  one  side  only  and  are  allegorical 
representations  of  (1)  Beasts,  (2)  Man,  (3)  Nebuchadnezzar,  (4)  Rome,  with 
English  descriptions  below.  On  the  four  paper  leaves  at  the  end  are  im- 
pressions resembling  the  others  with  Hebrew  inscriptions.  It  is  printed  for 
the  most  part  in  tvv'O  columns  in  Koman  letter,  but  in  the  text,  Hebrew 
type  is  used,  forming  the  earliest  example  of  Hebrew  printing  in  England, 
and  the  engravings  are  specimens  by  William  Rogers  of  the  earliest  copper- 
plate engraving  in  this  country.  The  author,  Hugh  Broughton,  was  a 
noted  Rabbinical  scholar,  and  the  work  is  dedicated  by  him  to  Queen 
Elizabeth.  The  names  of  the  printers,  without  the  date,  is  attached  to  a 
paper  copy  in  the  King's  library,  British  Museum.  Simson  and  White  were 
fined,  18  Aug.,  1595, 10  shillings,  for  printing  part  of  a  book  by  Mr  Broughton 
without  authority,  and  were  ordered  to  brhig  the  leaf  hito  Stationers' 
Hall.  It  is  very  probable  that  this  may  refer  to  the  work  under  notice. 
Bp.  Moore's  copy.  ■  The  Bodleian  has  two  copies,  one  with  the  plates 
printed  on  paper  only. 

Ames  (Herbert),  12G3— 7.    Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.,  i.  41,  No.  75. 

Dibdin,  Bibliomania,  531.    Cotton,  Typ.  (Jaz.,  316. 

Lowndes  (Bohn),  285. 


64.  A  Form  of  Prayers,  used  by  His  late  Maje.-^ty, 
King  William  HI.,  when  be  received  the  Holy  Sacrament. 
London,  printed  for  J.  Barnes,  1704.  Duodecimo,  [oj  x  3  inches.] 
48  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter,  with  15  lines  to  the  page,  and  compiled  from 
the  Kings  original  papers,  with  a  preface  by  John  I\[oore,  Bishop  succes- 
sively of  Norwich  and  Ely.  This  copy,  the  only  one  known  on  vellum,  came 
to  the  University  with  the  rest  of  that  Bishop  s  collection. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  108.    This  copy.  Lowndes  (Bohn),  1955. 


65.  "  II  Castello  di  Otranto.    Storia  Gotica.   /.  S.  In 

Londra  '  Presso  Molini,  Polidori  Molini  e  Co.  Ilaijmarket, 
ed.  J.  Edwards,  P  dl  Mall,  1795.  Large  Octavo.  [8^  x  5}  inches.] 
134  leaves,  besl-K^s  seven  plates,  printed  ou  white  satjn,  mounted 
on  vellum  and  c  doured. 


I500KS  PIIINTED  ON  VELLUM. 


The  English  original  of  this  roniaiice,  \vritteii  by  lloriico  Walpole,  hu^ 
the  preteDce  of  being  a  translation  l)y  William  Marshall.  Of  the  Italiun 
original,  written  by  Oniiplirio  Muralto,  canon  of  Otranto,  J.  Sivrac,  whose 
initials  appear  on  the  title  of  this  Italian  translation,  affects  to  be'mcrely 
the  editor.  lie  was  the  author  of  an  Enghsh  Grammar  written  in  French, 
London,  1794,  8vo.  This  copy  is  bomid  in  blue  morocco,  and  is  a  most 
beautiful  volume.  Purchased  1840—50  by  the  Rustat  fund.  Six  copies 
were  struck  off  on  vellum.  Similar  copies  are  in  the  library  of  the  Duke 
of  Devonshire,  at  Eton  ColJ.,  and  in  Is^at.  Library,  Paris. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph.,  125.    This  copy. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  286,  No.  444. 

Dibdin  (T.  F.),  Bibl.  Decam.,  ii.  34G— 378. 

66.  Fry  (Edmund).  Pantogeaphia,  containing  accurate 
copies  of  all  tlie  known  Alphabets  in  the  World,  with  explana- 
tion of  the  force  or  power  of  each  letter,  and  specimens  of  well- 
authenticated  oral  languages.  London,  Cooper  and  Wilson, 
1799.    Octavo.    [10  x  6i  inches.]    170  leaves. 

A  complete  body  of  comparative  Philology ;  the  specimens  of  characters 
are  executed  with  great  neatness.  In  this  cojiy  the  author  has  added  :\[.].)., 
to  his  name  on  the  title,  and  has  written  at  the  top  "  To  tlie  University  of 
Cambridge."  It  is  said  that  this  gift  was  procured  by  the  eminent  scholar, 
Richard  Porson.    Two  copies  on.ly  were  printed  on  vellum. 

Bradshaw,  Biblioph. ,  1 24.  T]i is  cnpy. 

Horne,  Bibliography,  454. 

Lowndes,  844. 

67.  Il  Convito  0  i  Lapiti  dal  Greco  di  Luciano.  Pionia, 
1815.  Nella  stamperia  de  Romanis,  con  licenza  de  Superior i. 
Octavo.    [9  X  5§  inches.]    28  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter.  Opposite  the  title  there  is  a  large  frontis- 
piece measuring  G  x  5|  inches,  engraved  by  Pinelli,  repi*esenting  the  quarrel 
between  the  Lapithoe  and  the  Centaurs.  In  vellum-gilt  binding.  Presented 
by  the  writer  in  1370.  Another  copy  in  this  state  is  in  the  National  Library 
at  Paris. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.  Supplement,  122.  No.  4S6. 

68.  Knowles  (George  Parker).  A  genealogical  and 
heraldic  account  of  the  Coultharts  of  Coulthart  nnd  Collyn, 
chiefs  of  the  na;;'c,  from  their  first  settlement  in  Scotlaiid  in  the 
reign  of  Conoriis  to  the  year  of  our  Lord  1854,  to  which  are 
added  the  pediprees  of  seven  other  considerable  families  tliat 


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througli  heiresses  became  incorporated  with  tlie  family. 
London.  Harrison  and  Sons,  ISor^.  (Privately  printed.)  Octavo. 
[9|  X  6-1  inches.]    11  leaves. 

Supplement  to  ditto,  1  leaf. 

69.  Knowles  (George  Parker).  A  genealogical  account 
of  the  Rosses  of  Dalton,  co.  Dumfries.  London,  tlie  same 
iwinters,  1855.    Octavo.    4  leaves. 

70.  ~         —  COULTIIART  OF  COULTIIART, 

Collyn,  and  Ashton-under-Lyne.  A  pedigree  on  a  large  folding 
sheet,  with  woodcuts.    London  (1853).    [31  x  24^  inches.] 

71.  —  —  .  —  ■ — .  Notes  and  memoranda  to 
the  COULTHART  AND  Ross  pedigrees.  (London,  3  Feb.,  ISGl). 
Octavo.    8  leaves. 

The  five  foregoing  articles  are  bound  together :  they  were  printed  on 
vellum  for  private  circulation  only.  For  the  entire  demohtion  of  tliis 
extraordinary  fictitious  pedigree,  dating  from  "  Coulthartus,  a  Roman 
lieutenant  who  fought  under  Agricola,"  see  Popular  Genccdogisls, 
Edinburgh.  1865, pp.  22 — 53,  written  anonymously  by  George  Burnett,  Lord 
Lyon.  Similar  copies,  without  the  Supplement  of  1SG4,  are  in  the  libraries 
of  the  British  jMuscum  and  Inner  Temple.  This  copy,  specially  referred  to 
in  page  51  of  the  above  work,  was  sent  by  Mr  J.  11.  Coulthart,  for  whom  it 
was  drawn  np  by  Mr  Knowles,  to  Mr  J.  Gough  Kichols,  the  anticpiary,  and 
contains  original  letters  on  the  subject  from  Islv  Coulthart,  from  George 
Burnett,  Lord  Lyon,  from  AVm.  Courthope,  Somerset,  and  from  Sir  J. 
Bernard  Burke,  Ulster,  to  Mr  Nichols.  Presented  by  tlie  present  witcr  in 
1875. 

72.  (One  leaf  of)  HoR.'i:  B.  M.  Virginis.  (Franco,  c.  1520  0- 
Octavo. 

From  the  sequenties  of  the  Gospels,  printed  in  Missal  type  in  red  and 
black.  25  lines  to  page,  text  5^  x  3  J  inches.  On  tlie  reverse  is  an  illumi- 
nated full-page  woodcut  of  the  Betrayal  x  3j  inches,  rrcscntcd  by  tlic 
present  writer  in  b'^77. 


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73.  (One  leaf  of)  Missale  Herbipolense.  [Tn  civitate 
Herhipolensi  'per  Georgium  lleyser),  l-i81.  Folio.  [14 J  x  10 
incLes.] 

This  is  the  leaf  opposite  the  commencement  of  the  canon  of  the  Mass, 
and  contains  a  large  copper-^plate  engraving,  measuring  W}  x  T.j  inches,  of 
the  most  delicate  and  graceful  execution,  representing  Clirist  ou  the  cross 
with  S.  Mary  and  S.  John,  attended  by  angels.  Views  of  Wurzhurg  and 
of  the  Castle  of  INIarienburg  are  in  the  background.  This  fine  work  of  art 
is  attributed  to  Albrecht  Glockenton  of  Nuremburg.  Purchased  at  the 
Liphart  sale,  Frankfort,  Dec.  1876.  Passavant  says  tliis  engraving  almost 
always  occurs  on  vellum.  An  imperfect  vellum  copy  of  this  Wurzburg  Missal, 
with  the  engraving  of  the  crucifixion  wanting,  is  in  the  Bodleian.  A  paper 
copy  of  the  later  ed.  of  1483,  a  re-issue,  with  nine  vellum  leaves,  the  tenth 
with  the  large  engraving  being,  as  in  the  Bodleian  copy,  abstr[icted,  is  in 
the  British  Museum. 

Dibdin,  Bib.  Dec.  i.  31.  Cotton,  Typ.  Gaz.  (1824),  p.  67. 

Passavant,  Peintre-graveur,  ii.  127 — 8. 

There  are  several  engravings  on  vellum  in  the  magnificent  collections 
of  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum,  but,  inasmuch  as  they  do  not  form  portions  of 
any  printed  book,  they  will  not  fall  within  the  scope  of  this  work. 

74.  HoR^.  AD  USUM  Sarum.  Farisius  'per  riiilippinn 
Pigouchet,  1498,  16  May.  Octavo.  [7x4^-  inches.]  128 
leaves. 

For  a  description  of  this  edition  of  the  Salisbury  Hours,  and  references, 
see  under  the  finer  copy  in  the  University  Library,  No.  2.3.  The  copy 
under  notice  wants  seven  leaves  : — signatures  C^,  E'^  F^  L'^  thus  having 
121  leaves,  with  26  lines  to  the  page.  The  name  of  the  former  owuei-, 
Mr  Thos.  Kerrich,  F.S.A.,  Librarian  of  the  University,  is  on  the  fly-leaf. 
It  was  presented  with  other  books  by  the  representatives  of  the  Rev.  R.  E. 
Kerrich,  M.A.,  Christ's  College,  in  1873. 

75.  HoR.E  AD  UsuM  Sarum.  WitJwut  place,  date,  or 
printers  na'tne  (hid  prolahhj  j^rinted  in  Paris  by  Simon  Vosire 
about  1500).    Octavo.    [9  x  6  iuclies.]    120  leaves. 

This  beautiful  book  is  unfortunately  imperfect,  having  at  present  only 
111  leaves,  the  first  leaf  and  the  whole  of  sheet  E  being  wanting,  but  the 
signature  title  is  S  fur  Sarum.  It  has  twelve  large  woodcuts  besides  the 
"  anatomy,"  some  uf  them  measuring  7|  x  5  inches,  which  appear  to  be 
hnpressions  from  Vcslrc's  largest  scries  of  wood-blocks.  The  whole  with  tlie 
elaborate  woodcut  bn>-ders  are  illuminated  in  a  very  superior  style  of  art. 


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There  are  30  lines  to  the  page.  The  title  and  the  Almanac  have  disappeared 
being  probably  on  the  same  leaf,  and  there  is.  though  the  book  seems 
perfect  at  the  end,  no  imprint,  nor  any  thing  to  give  a  clue  to  its 
date  or  printer.  On  the  last  leaf  is  painted  a  miniature  of  a  lady  in  an 
heraldic  surcoat,  kneeling;  above  her  are  two  shields  of  arms.  A  MS.  note 
opposite,  written  by  F.  Townsend,  Windsor  Herald,  1797,  descnbes  her  as 
Catherine  Norland,  daughter  of  Thomas  Norland,  grocer  and  alderman  of 
London  in  the  time  of  King  H^enryYI.:  her  first  husband,  Thomas  Windout, 
was  sheriff  of  London  in  1497.  Her  second  was  Sir  Richard  Haddon,  Knt., 
Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1506.  Lr  "Walter  Haddon,  Master  of  Requests  in 
the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  fellow  of  King's  Coll.  Camb.,  was  her 
grandson.  On  the  fly-leaf  at  the  beginning  of  the  volume  is  written  "  See 
Maskell,  Mon.  Rit.  Eccl.  Angl.  vol.  i.  p.  clv — clvii  Paris,  Simon  Vostro, 
1507,"  and  Mr  Searle  has  described  this  copy  as  of  this  edition.  On  turn- 
ing to  the  place  however  in  Mr  Maskell's  book,  it  will  be  found  that  he  says 
nothing  about  the  Fitzwilliam  copy,  but  gives  at  length  the  contents  of  a 
Sarum  Book  of  Hours  in  his  possession  printed  by  Vostre  in  1507.  This 
book,  which  with  the  rest  of  Mr  Maskell's  service-books  ai-e  now  in  the 
British  Museum  (C.  41  a),  has  the  title  as  given  above  in  the  Mon.  Rit.;  the 
date  being  taken  approximately  from  the  Almanac,  however,  proves  on 
examination  to  be  of  an  entirely  different  and  much  inferior  edition  to  the 
Fitzwilliam  copy,  not  agreeing  in  number  of  leaves,  lines,  character  of  typo 
or  size.  The  writer  has  been  unable  to  identify  this  edition  with  any  at 
the  British  Museum.  This  volume  formed  a  part  of  Lord  Fitzsvilliam's 
magnificent  bequest  to  the  University  in  1815. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  Fitzw.  Mus.,  172.   This  cojvj. 

76.  I-IeuPxES  a  l'usaige  de  Eome.  Paris,  Antoine  Vcyard, 
21  Jul,  150S.    Octavo.    [7x4  indies.] 

Has  the  device  but  not  the  name  of  Vcrard.  The  word  "  Rome"  has 
been  in  the  colophon  in  MS.  The  woodcuts  are  illuminated;  there  are  no 
borders.    The  xVlinanac  is  from  1503—20.    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.)  172.    No.  3.    This  cojnj. 

77.  Heures  a  l'usaige  de  Paris,  {rarls)  Simon  Vostre 
(1508).    Octavo.    [SJ  x  inches.] 

The  following  arms  have  been  painted  over  the  initials  of  the  shield  in 
Yostre's  device  on  page  1  of  this  volume  of  Puris  Hours:  Az.  a  chevr.  or 
betw.  2  apples  proper  and  a  gar})e  of  the  second,  and  a  label  added  with 
the  motto  EAHIS  KAI  EYSTAGEIA  :  there  is  also  an  inscription  painted. 
The  Almanac  runs  from  1508  to  1528.  With  the  above  trifling  excepti<)n 
the  whole  of  tlie  woodcuts  and  woodcut  borders  are  uncoloured  :^  it  is  in 
the  most  perfect  preservation,  and  forms  a  remarkably  fine  specimen  of 
this  class  of  boolc.    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.j,  MSS.  in  Fitz.  Mu.s.  172.  No.  2.   T/ns  cop//. 

Brunet  (18G4),     1590.  No.  75. 


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78.  Heures  a  l'usage  de  Rome.  Paris,  par  Jehan 
Barhier  pour  Guillame  le  Rourje,  1509,  Aout  22.  Octavo. 
[5 1  X  3 J  inches.] 

The  woodcuts  are  illuminated.  At  the  beginning  is  a  miniature  of  a  man 
knecHng  at  a  prie-Dieu  before  a  vision  of  the  Blessed  Virgin  and  Holy 
Child.  On  a  blue  cloth  covering  the  prie-Dieu  is  a  shield  charged  with  a 
merchant's  mark.    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  F.  M.  173,  No.  4. 

Brunet,  v.  1668,  No.  352  or  353  nearly. 

79.  Heures  a  l'usage  de  (Paris).  Paris,  21  Juinr/,  1510. 
AntJioine  Verarcl.    Octavo.    [T-J  x  4|-  inches.] 

The  Almanac  is  from  1503 — 20.  The  large  woodcuts  are  illuminated, 
and  each  page  has  rich  borders  painted  by  hand.  On  the  title-pngc  is 
inscribed  "  Du  Mon''  de  fueilleintines  de  Paris."    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  173,  No.  5.    This  crqyy.         Brunet,  v.  1610,  No.  14S. 

80.  Heures  a  l'usage  de  Sens.  Paris,  pour  Simon  Vostre 
(1512).    Octavo.    [7  X  4^  inches.] 

The  large  w^oodcuts  are  illuminated  :  there  are  woodcut  borders.  The 
Almanac  is  from  1512 — 1530.    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 
Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  F.  M.  173,  No.  6.    This  cojvj. 

81.  Heures  a  l'usage  de  Bourges.  Paris,  lehan  de  la 
Roclie  pour  GuillaumG  Eustace  libraire  du  roy,  1511.  Octavo. 
[8 J  X  5  inches.] 

The  large  woodcuts  are  illuminated :  there  are  no  woodcut  borders,  but 
painted  ones  in  the  style  of  the  Renaissance.  Bound  in  olive  morocco. 
Almanac  from  1507—1528.    Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  F.  M.  174,  No.  7.   This  copy. 

82.  Heures  a  l'usage  de  Home.    Paris,  par  Gillet 

Hardouyn  (151G).    Octavo.    [7  x  4^  inches.] 

The  woodcuts  are  uncoloured:  there  are  no  borders.  The  "  Almanac" 
is  from  1516—1527.    Lord  Fitzwilham's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  F.  M.  174,  No.  8.   This  copy. 

83.  PIORiE  SECUNDUM  USUM  ECCLESI/E  ROMAN.E.  Paris, 

par  Nicolas  Hygman  pour  GuiUaume  Eustace,  20  Sept.  1517. 
Octavo.    [8x5  inclics.] 

The  woodcuts  arc  illuminated :  there  are  borders.  Lord  Fitzwilliam'.-t 
copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  17^  No.  D.   This  copy. 


FITZ  WILL  I  AM  MUS  KUM . 


84.  HoR/E  SECUNDUM  UsuM  KoMANUM.  ParisUs,  (Jeniw.iii 
Ilardoiiijn  (1532).    Octavo.    [G}  x  4J  inches.] 

Tlie  Almanac  is  from  1532—45.    The  woodcuts  arc  illiimiiiatcd.  Lord 
Fitzwilliam's  copy. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  Fitz.  175.  Thiscojvj. 

85,  HoR^E  (SEU  Orarittm)  secundum  Usu.Ar  Sakum. 
Paris,  Germain  Hardouijn  (1533).  Octavo.  [5J  x  inclies.] 
1G2  leaves,  29  lines. 

The  first  leaf  is  wanting,  but  on  sign.  B~b  is  to  be  found  the  title  of  this 
book  of  Salitsbury  Hours  : — "  llovce  sanctissimse  ac  intemeratoe  Virginia 
Maria3  secundum  usum  ac  consuetudincm  insignis  ecclcsite  Sarum:"  at  tlie 
end,  "  Imprcssum  est  hoc  Orarium  Parisiis  in  aulibus  Germani  llardouvn," 
etc.  The  Almanac  is  from  1533 — 1546.  Lord  Fitzwilliam's  copy.  A  copy 
like  this,  wanting  the  title,  but  only  0)i  'paper,  is  in  the  British  Museum. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  Fitz.  Mus.  175.    This  copy. 

86—86".  Fenelon  (Fr.  de  Salignac  de  la  Mothe).  Les 
Aventuresde  Telemaque.  Paris.  BeViiiiprbneriedeMonsicur. 
1785.    Quarto.    [13  J  x  10 J  inches.]    In  four  volumes. 

A  most  sumptuous  edition  of  this  favourite  work,  produced  under  the 
direction  of  P.  Firniin  Didot,  and  printed  in  very  large  and  elegant  type. 
Tills  copy  has  twenty-four  large  (8  x  5|  inches)  and  beautifully  coloured 
engravings  by  Parisot  from  the  drawings  of  Moette,  which  were  in  the 
picked  copies  substituted  for  the  mediocre  designs  by  :Mimnct,  generally 
placed  in  this  edition.  The  edges  are  uncut.  These  volumes  were  pre- 
sented in  1 836  by  Mr  Jonathan  ILitfield,  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge. 
Four  copies  only  were  printed  on  vellum.  A  copy  of  this  edition  (probably 
on  vellum  though  not  so  specified)  in  M.  Gonzales'  library,  splendidly  bound 
in  two  volumes,  sold  in  Paris  in  1876  for  £V'20. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  Fitz.  Mus.  176.   This  copy. 

Brunct,  ii.  1215. 

87.  Le  Triomphe  de  La  Mort,  grave  d'apres  les  desseins 
DE  Holbein  par  AV.  Hollar.  Explication  des  sujets  du 
Triomphe  de  la  Mort  de  Jean  Holrein.  Without  date, 
place,  or  printer's  name.  [London,  J.  Edwards,  1700).  Octavo. 
[7g,  X  4|  inches.]    43  leaves. 

"^Thirty  subjects  of  llulbein's  Trance  of  Death  engraved  by  llollir  in 
1651 :  beina-  vo-i;)ipressions  from  the  old  plates  with  explanations  printed  in 
French.  Ti.is  ;.;.[.ears  to  bo  the  edition  published  by  ?.!r  Ldwards,^  tiio 
London  hool-^^Wa;  in  17i)0,  some  copies  of  which  had  a  French  text.  This 
copy,  which  is  in  beautiful  condition,  and  appear.^  to  have  belonged  to  Lord 


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Fitzwilliam,  unfortunately  wants  the  first  leaf,  containing  tlie  title  above 
cloAvn  to  "  W.  Hollar".  The  second  title  commencing  with  "  Exx)lieation 
&c.,"  remains.  There  are  no  engraved  borders  iu  any  of  these  latei-  impres- 
sions, but  in  the  copy  under  notice  each  page  is  surrounded  by  a  delicately 
painted  ribbon  border  of  burnished  gold,  ternnnating  in  tiissclled  ends. 
There  is  a  MS.  note  purporting  that  at  the  sale  of  M.  Paris  in  1791  it  sold 
for  tAvelve  guineas.  Six  copies  appear  to  have  been  struck  off  on  vellum. 
A  complete  copy  on  discoloured  vellum,  without  any  decorations  and  very 
inferior  to  the  above,  is  in  tlie  British  Museum,  it  has  44  leaves. 

Searle  (W.  G,),  MSS.  in  Fitz.  Mus.  177.  Tlils  copy. 

Douce  (F.)  Dance  of  Death,  ]  13.  Brunet,  nr.  258. 

88 — 91.  Breton  (M.),  La  Chine  en  miniature,  ou  cholx 
de  costumes,  arts  et  metiers  de  cet  empire.  Paris,  Nepveu,  1811. 
Octodecimo.    \ph  x      inches.]    In  four  volumes. 

There  are  74  engravings  beautifully  coloured,  and  these  exquisite  little 
volumes  are  bound  in  purple  morocco  extra,  lined  with  satin  and  leather 
joints.  They  were  presented  in  1817  by  Mr  N.  Atcheson,  F.S.A.  Jirnnct 
must  be  in  error  in  stating  that  only  one  copy  was  printed  on  vellum,  as 
Van  Praet  mentions  another  in  the  National  Library,  Paris,  in  the  General 
Supplement  to  both  his  Catalogues,  at  the  end  of  the  2nd  Cat.  published  in 
1828. 

Searle  (W.  G.),  MSS.  in  Fitz.  Mus.  176.   This  copy. 
Brunet,  I.  1225. 

Van  Praet,  Gen.  Supplement  at  end  of  the  2nd  Cat.  p.  129. 

92.  Credo  du  Sieur  de  Joinville,  without  name,  place, 
or  date.  {Paris,  Firmin  Didot,  1837.)  Quarto.  [8:}  x  7  inches.] 
15  leaves. 

This  is  the  lithographed  facsimile  of  an  illuminated  manuscript  of  the 
XIII.  century  written  in  old  French  with  26  long  lines  to  the  page,  witli  the 
twenty-five  miniatures  in  outline.  It  is  one  of  the  thirty  copies  struck  olf 
on  vellum  for  the  Societe  des  Bibliophiles  by  F.  Didot,  but  this  copy  is 
without  the  modern  French  translation  forming  the  second  part.  La  Croix 
gives  a  copy  of  one  of  these  outlines,  and  states  that  the  original  MS.  was 
formerly  in  the  National  Library,  Paris,  but  that  it  was  (1S74)  supposed 
to  be  in  England.  Another  copy  on  vellum,  in  the  Grenvillc  collection, 
British  Museum,  also  is  incomplete.  This  "  Credo"  or  Creed  is  broken  up 
into  paragraphs  written  in  red,  each  of  which  has  a  lengthy  commentary  by 
De  Johiville,  illustrated  by  miniatures  of  Bible  scenes  and  of  the  adventures 
of  St  Louis  in  the  TToly  Land.    Presented  in  I b73  by  the  writer. 

Searle,  MSS.  in  V.  M.  177.    This  copij.  Brunet,  ni.  558. 

Bibl.  Grenvillc,  I  '.m  I  ii.  472. 

Lacroix,  Military  and  Religious  Life,  fig.  109,  p.  129. 


I 


ST  Peter's  college. 


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ST  PETER'S  COLLEGE  LIBRAEY. 

93.  BiBLiA  Latina  Ytjlgata.  In  civitate  2for/untina  2)er 
Johannem  fust  civem  et  Fetrum  schoiffer  de  gernssheijm  clericum. 
1462.    Folio.    [ICi  X  llf  inches.]    239  leaves. 

This  is  the  second  volume  of  the  two,  into  wliicli  this,  the  first  printed 
Bible  with  a  date,  is  divided.  It  commences  with  tlie  Book  of  Troverhs, 
the  first  page  opening  with  the  following  summary  printed  in  red: 
"  Epistola  Sancti  leronomi  presbitcri  ad  Chromatium  et  Eliodorum  episco- 
pos  de  libris  Salamonis."  The  colophon  in  this  copy  has  been  almost 
entirely  erased,  only  a  few  of  the  letters  in  red  being  faintly  visible.  This 
was  done  possibly  with  the  intention  of  passing  the  book  off  as  a  m.  Fust 
and  Schoiffer's  device  in  red,  however,  remains  intact.  The  initial  letters 
throughout  are  richly  illuminated,  and  the  whole  volume  is  perfect  and  in 
fine  condition,  save  that  one  initial  has  been  cut  out  in  the  middle  of  the 
volume.  At  the  end  of  the  volume  are  thirty  additional  leaves  in  manu- 
script, being  a  glossary  of  Hebrew  and  Greek  names,  and  words  with  Latin 
interpretations,  arranged  alx)habetically  in  narrow  columns.  On  the  first 
page  is  a  note  in  an  old  hand  to  the  effect  that  in  the  year  1581  it  belonged 
to  a  certain  Edward  Orwell.  This  important  example  of  early  typography 
was  presented  in  16G2  by  Dr  Cosin,  Bishop  of  Durham,  late  Master  of  the 
College,  and  appears  to  have  escaped  notice.  Similar  copies  in  this 
country  are  in  the  British  Museum,  the  Ilunterian  library,  Glasgow,  and 
in  the  libraries  of  Lord  Spencer  and  the  Duke  of  Marlborough.  The 
Bodleian,  as  here,  has  one  volume  only — the  first.  A  complete  copy  on 
vellum  sold  for  £780  at  the  Perkins  sale,  July,  1S7.3. 

Panzer,  II.  114.  llain,  *3050. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  18,  No.  17. 

Dibdin,  Bibl.  Spenc.  i.  11.  Dibdin,  Northern  Jour.  ii.  737. 

Cotton,  Typog.  Gazetteer,  339. 

CLARE  COLLEGE  LIBRARY. 

94.  Heures  a  l'usaige  de  'RoUMiL,im2)r{mees  a  Faris  -par 
Gillet  Hardouyn  Imprimeur  demourant  au  bout  dit  pont  nostre 
Dame  Levant  Sanct  Denis  de  la  Chartre  a  r ensign e  de  la  liose 
(1512).    Large  Octavo.  [9  x  G  inches.]    92  leaves. 

There  is  no  date,  but  the  "Almanack"  runs  from  1512—1523.  The 
book  is  printed  in  Gothic  letter,  30  lines  to  the  page.  Leaf  sign.  L'  is 
^vanting.  So  that  tlicre  are  at  present  91  leaves.  There  are  twenty  largo 
illuminated  wouiin  's ;  beside  the  anatomy  and  the  printer's  device;  eight 
of  wliich  measure  ^  x  4^  inches,  and  fill  the  whole  page.  The  ricli  wood- 
cut borders  to  eac:  page  are  uncolourcd,  and  the  volume  forms  altogetlicr 


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BOOKS  PllINTED  ON  VELLUM. 


a  magnificent  specimen  of  a  Book  of  Parisian  Hours.  On  tlie  first  page  is 
written  "Aul.  Clar.  ex  dono  Richard  3Iotcse  hujus  collcfjii  alw/ui"  The 
MS.  Library  Catalogue  states  the  gift  to  have  been  made  in  the  year  lGi)2. 
Brunet  gives  notliiug  exactly  corresponding  with  this  edition,  under 
"  liardouyn"  in  vol.  v.  Xo.  234  in  title  seems  to  agree,  but  its  Almanac  is 
for  a  later  period. 

95.  Galeni  (C.)  Pergameni  De  Causis  Pulsuum  latino 
per  Cruseriu^i,  Libri  quatuor  : — 

De  pra3sagatione  ex  piilsibiis  per  Creuserium  Libri  qnatuor. 
— De  Pulsuum  usu  Thoma  Linacro  Anglo  interprete  Liber 
Unus.  Without  date,  place,  or  j'^rinters  name  (but  jvohahhj  the 
edition  printed  at  Paris  hy  Simon  Colinceus,  15:32).  Folio. 
[14  X  9^-  inches.]    67  leaves. 

Printed  in  a  large  and  beautiful  Roman  letter,  45  long  lines  to  tlie 
page.  An  edition  of  these  same  three  treatises  bound  up  with  otliers  by 
the  same  writer,  and  printed  by  Simon  Colinoeus,  at  Paris,  in  15;)-2,  is 
in  the  National  Library,  Paris,  and  seems  to  correspond  completely  in 
number  of  leaves  and  lines  to  a  page  with  the  copy  under  notice.  See  col- 
lection given,  by  Van  Praet. 

The  Initials  throughout  this  very  beautiful  volume  are  delicately  illu- 
minated on  gold  grounds,  the  vellum  is  of  the  finest  quality,  it  is  ruled  in 
red  throughout,  and  from  tlie  following  inscription  eYide]itly  is  the  presen- 
tation copy  to  King  Henry  VIIL,  from  one  of  the  translators  of  the  work. 
On  the  first  page,  painted  in  large  burnished  gold  capitals  is  Invictis.si.mo 
-I-  Tllustrissimoql'k  +  llENraco  -v  Octavo  +  Kkgi  -h  Anglle  -h  et  \-  Fiiancli: 

+  DOAIINO  +  iIYBEll^;I.E  -|- AC  4-  AVaLLI^E  +  Coil.N  UELEQUE  +  PllIXCIPl  -|-  IIkH- 

mannus  +  Ciiuseiuus  +  Cami>exsts  +  S  +  P  +  D.  The  translator  of  the  last 
piece  in  the  volume  is  the  celebrated  Dr  Linacre,  founder  of  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  of  the  jMedical  lectures  at  Oxford  and  Cambridge.  The 
old  and  much  worn  binding  of  velvet,  wliicli  perha])s  might  have  given 
some  indication  as  to  the  donor,  or  former  possessoi*,  lias  recently  been 
replaced  by  a  handsome  covering  of  red  morocco  wortliy  of  the  volume. 
The  only  other  similar  copy  seems  to  be  that  at  Paris,  mentioned  above, 
which  is  a  presentation  copy  to  King  Francis  L 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.  iil,  p.  63,  Ko.  S3.       Brunet,  ii.  1450. 

PEMBROKE  COLLEGE  LIBIUnY. 

96.  Missale  Eboracense,  Rotlwmagi,  opera  Petri  Olivier. 
Sumptibus  Juli'innis  Gachet  ju.da  ecclesiam  prefatuni  {Eboracen- 
sew),  5  Febr.  l-MG.  Folio.  [\^  x  9  inches.]  11)2  leaves,  2  of 
vellum. 


PEMBUOKE  COLLEGE. 


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This  is  a  recently  discovered  copy  of  this  rare  Yoris.  Missal,  making  live 
copies  now  known  of  this  edition.  This  under  notice  is  a  larger  but  less 
perfect  copy,  than  that  in  the  University  Library,  No.  3G  ante  (which  see 
for  notes  and  references).  This  volume  lay  in  fragments  unidentified  until 
very  fortunately  the  title  Avas  found  and  the  scattered  leaves  bound  to- 
gether. Eight  leaves  are  wanting.  The  donor  was  the  celebrated  Launcc- 
lot  Andrews,  Bp.  of  Winchester,  and  Master  of  the  College  in  loS9,  who 
amongst  other  benefactions  gave  a  fine  series  of  Bibles  to  the  libniry. 

97.  MissALE  Sarum.  Antwerpm,  Chisiopliori  Rure- 
muridi  arte  atque  sedulo  labore,  ■prudentice  Fi-ancisci  l^ijrck- 
man  hihliopolw  eximii.  28  March,  1527.  Folio.  [125- xS 
inches.]    308  leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

Similar  copies  are  at  the  British  Museum,  the  Gough  Collection  at  the 
Bodleian,  and  in  the  National  Library,  Paris. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.,  i.  p.  22L         Dickinson,  18. 

GONVILLE  AND  CAIUS  COLLEGE  LIT5EARY. 

98.  MisSALE  Sarum,  Parisiis,  typis  Joannis  Amazeiir  pro 
Gidielmo  Merlin,  Idod.  Folio.  [18|- x  9^  iiiclics.]  2  leaves  of 
vellum. 

For  an  account  of  this  edition  of  the  Sarum  Missal,  and  for  refcr- 
encos,  see  ante  under  No.  5S,  the  smaller  University  copy.  There  is 
a  third  copy  at  St  Catharine's  Coll.  (No.  lUD). 


COEPUS  CI-miSTI  COLLEGE  LIBRAEY. 

99.  Manuale  ad  Usu.ai  Saiium.  London :  Ricardns  Fynson 
ad  intersicjniurti  Sancti  Georgii  in  flete  strete  commorans,  penes 
ecclesiam  Sancti  Dimstani  anno  domini  150G.  Folio.  [12^,-  x  8^ 
inches.]    136  leaves. 

The  whole  of  the  Calendar  (probably  consisting  of  G  unnuml)cred  leaves) 
and  leaves  1,  38,  109,  110,  and  112—116  are  wanting  in  this  copy  of  the 
Salisbury  Manual.  It  begins  on  leaf  2  with  the  "  Benedictio  salis  et  aqu;e 
at  the  end  is  Pynson's  device  and  the  imprint  partly  copied  above.  The 
volume  is  finely  printed  in  two  columns  in  red  and  black,  with  snmll  wood- 
cuts, the  letter-prcsy  b.nng  remarkably  brilliant,  and  the  vellum  white  an-l 
even  It  is  in  a  lino  old  calf  binding  stamped  in  diaper.  This  copy 
probably  came  with  Archbishop  Parker's  books  to  the  College;  for  tiiongh 
his  Manuscripts  ha^.  been  kept  separate,  the  printed  portion  of  his  collec- 


44  BOOKS  PRINTED  ON  VELLUM. 

tion  appears  to  have  been  distributed  throughout  the  general  library.  The 
only  other  similar  copy  is  preserved  at  Stonyhurst  College. 

Hartshorne,  245,  who  wrongly  calls  it  a  Missal.   TJcis  copy. 

Dickinson,  13. 

100.    EHEFHSEIX  HAAAIAI  KAI  AIAN  HcI^EAIMOI. 

Expositiones  antiqiia3  ac  valde  utiles  in  Acta  Apo.stolornm  in 
Septem  epistolas  in  Paiali  omnes.  Ex  diversis  sanctorum  patrum 
commentariis  ab  Oecumenio  et  Aretha  collectce.  T^ero7ue,  apud 
Stejyhanum  et  fratres  SaUos,  1532.  Folio.  [18J  x  S^- inches.] 
128  leaves. 

Printed  in  Greek  letter,  in  long  lines.  This  copy  contains  the  Acts  and 
the  Catholic  Epistles,  and  appears  to  be  the  first  volume  only  of  the 
complete  work.  It  is  not  a  little  singular  that  what  would  seem  to  be  its 
complement,  the  second  and  third  volumes  of  this  very  vellum  copy,  are  in 
the  Bodleian  Library,  together  forming  what  would  appear  to  be  the  only 
copy  known  on  vellum.  For  the  following  collation  I  am  indebted  to  tho 
kindness  of  the  licv.  S,  S.  Lewis,  the  Librarian  : — On  the  back  of  the  titlc- 
l~>age  is  a  dedication  in  latin  by  Donatus  Yeronensis  to  Henry  YIJL:  then 
follows  on  2  pages,  a  dedication  in  latin  to  Pope  Clement  VIL:  then  2 
pages  in  Greek,  headed  T0I2  fl^IAEAAHSL  (The  rest  is  continuously  in 
Greek.)    Then  2  pages  of  notes  on  the  Lives  of  the  Twelve  Apostles,  and 

1  page,  notes  on  the  Life  of  St  Paul : — 2  pages  of  Analysis  of  the  Acts  of 
the  Apostles  by  chapters  : — 1  page  of  Old  Testament  testimonies  to  Christ : — 
6^  pages  of  argument  nnd  analysis  of  the  Acts  by  chapters : — 3  pages  of 
argument  of  the  Epistles  in  iambic  verse,  h  page  of  address  of  the  Editor  to 
his   readers,    headed  O   n^v   ^l[3\ov  cnauopdcoaas   rots  avayivcoaKovcn  : — 

2  pages  headed,  UpoXeyofxeva  els  ras  Trpu^ft?  Kci  XpvaocrTnuou  :  then 
follow  232  pages  with  the  pagination  printed  in  black  ink,  the  first  page 
headed  with  ESHEHSIS  Ti2N  HAAAI  AEIGN  ANAPflN,  &C.,  &c.,  the  last 
page  ending  Avith  TeXoy  rrjs  lov8a  KaOoXinrjs  imcrroXris.  There  are  254  pages 
exclusive  of  the  leaf  upon  which  the  title  is  printed.  iVs  in  the  preceding 
case,  there  is  nothing  to  show  precisely  who  was  the  donor  of  this  book, 
the  first  edition  of  the  Commentaries  of  fficumenius  and  Arethas,  but 
probably  it  came,  like  the  preceding  volume,  with  Abp.  Parker's  collection. 
It  is  in  the  original  binding  of  oak  boards  covered  with  stamped  vellum. 

Panzer,  viii.  p.  5G2.       Cotton,  Typog.  Gaz.  345. 
Brunet,  iv.  1G2. 


kIxVg's  college. 


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KING'S  COLLEGE  LIBIIARY. 

101.  LiTTEE^.  Indulgentiarum,  issued  by  John  de  Gigliis, 
legate  of  Pope  Sixtus  IV.  for  assistaEce  against  the  Turks. 
Westminster,  William  Caxton,  1481.  Broadside. 

This  is  a  slip  measuring  9|  inches  long,  Avith  margin,  and  containing 
four  lines  in  width  of  an  edition  of  this  Indulgence  printed  by  Caxtoi", 
but  differing  from  that  facsimiled  by  Mr  Jilades,  ii.  184,  fig.  4(3.  It  Avas 
discovered  by  Mr  Bradshaw  in  the  binding  of  a  xvth  century  book  in  this 
library,  which  had  been  rebound  in  the  last  century,  but  from  which  tho 
later  workman,  most  fortunately,  had  not  altogether  obliterated  the  traces 
of  the  original  binder. 

102.  BoETius  (Anitius  Manlius  Severtnus).  Vir  et 
eruditione  et  nobilitate  praBstantissimus  ex  ?y[anlio  Torquato 
Romano  turn  Consularis  turn  Patricius,  de  Uno  et  Tri.no. 
Dedit  hide  collegio  Rich.  Dayus  eiusdem  socius,  Anno.  Dom.  1575. 
Folio.    [12-7-  X  inches.] 

103.  AUGUSTINUS  (D.  AURELIU«),  Ypponensis  Episcopus 
et  Ecclesise  Doctor  prcestantissimus.  De  quantitate  ANL^r/E. 
Dedit  June  collegio  IiicJi.  Bayus  eiusdem  socius,  Anno.  Dom.  1575. 
Folio.    [1%  X  ^\  inches.] 

This  and  the  preceding  Article  are  Title-pages  specially  printed  on  vellum 
by  John  Day,  the  celebrated  printer,  or  by  his  son  Richard  Day,  M'ho  was 
in  partnership  with  liis  father.  They  are  severally  i)rcfixed  to  two  fine 
folio  MSS.  on  vellum  of  the  xiith  century,  bound  in  one  volume,  and  presented, 
as  the  titles  indicate,  in  1575  to  King's  College,  by  Richard  Day,  wlio  was 
a  fellow  of  that  society.  The  first-mentioned  manuscript  has  the  beautifully 
interlaced  illuminated  initials  usual  in  rich  books  of  its  age.  The  titles  are 
printed  in  roman  letter  within  the  very  elaborate  woodcut  border  of 
symbolic  figures  used  by  John  Day  for  some  of  his  folio  books,  such  as 
Cunningham's  Cosmographical  Glasse,  1559,  or  the  De  Antiqr.itate  Rrit. 
Eccl.  Sec  ante  No.  Gl,  which  border  is  described  by  Dibdiji,  Typ.  Antiq. 
IV.  73. 

104.  Chrlsostom  (D.  Joh.)  Constantinopolitani  Episcopi  et 
Doctoris  Eccles-Lv  siiigularisOrus  IN  MATTJiyEUM  Evangelistum. 

■  Dedit  huic  coUeyio  Ricli.  Dayus  eiusdem  socius,  An.  Dom.  1575. 
Folio.    [Hi  X  S  :uches.] 


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105.  AUGUSTINI  (D.  AuRELTi),  Yppoiiciisis  Episcopi.  Di: 
VITA  Christiana  liber  :  ad  Jultanum  comitem  epistola. 
Dedit  huic  collecjio  Rich.  Dayus  eiusdem,  socius,  An.  Dom.  l."375. 
Folio.    [Hi  X  8  inclies.] 

106.  —  —  —  — .  Sententia  de  Retrac- 
tione  liber  Epistola  ad  Aurelium.  Dedit  Jniic  collegio  Rich. 
Dayus,  eiusdiem  socius,  An.  Dom.  1575.   Folio.    [11^-  x  8  inclio,-.] 

As  in  Articles  102—3  these  three  arc  specially  printed  vellum  title-pa;;es 
prefixed  to  manuscripts  in  this  case  of  the  xivth  century.  The  volume  is  a 
smaller  folio  than  the  preceding.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  point  out  the 
interest  and  singularity  of  such  unique  evidences  of  the  taste  and  liberality 
of  these  noted  printers. 

107.  Statutes  of  King's  College,  Cambridge.  Cam- 
Iridge,  printed  hy  C.J.  Clay,  M.A.,  at  the  University  Press,  witli- 
out  date  (but  printed  in  1802).  Qucirto.  [lOj  x  8^  inches.] 
20  leaves. 

The  page  is  surrounded  by  a  border  of  red  lines,  the  vellum  is  of  good 
quality,  and  it  is  needless  to  say  that  the  printing  is  finely  executed.  Tlircc 
copies  were  printed  on  vellum ;  one  is  deposited  in  the  College  muniment 
room,  the  other  two  probably  are  in  the  possession  of  tlie  Trovost  for  the 
time  being,  and  of  Eton  College,  respectively.  This  volume  is  the  only 
Cambridge-printed  book  of  this  class  the  writer  has  been  able  to  discover 
preserved  in  the  place  itself.  The  only  other  books  printed  on  vellum 
issued  by  the  University  press  appear  to  be  the  three  following  unique 
copies,  all  unfortunately  in  other  collections. 

Galeni,  de  Temperamcntis,  CaiitaJjrigia  'per  Jo.  Siherch.  ir)21.  In  the 
Bodleian, 

Codex  Th.  Beza?  Cantabrigiensis  cd.  T.  Kipling,  Cantahrigia  in  j'^'clo 
Academico,  1793.  Folio.  In  the  British  i\Iuseum,  from  the  lil)rary  of 
George  III.,  two  splendid  volumes  measuring  (19  x  12|  inches.)  This  seems 
the  only  copy  struck  off:  it  contains  no  note  of  any  kind  or  inscription,  and 
nothing  seems  known  of  any  other  copy  on  vellum. 

The  Holy  Bible.  Cambridge,  Pitt  Press,  1837.  Large  Quarto.  One 
copy  of  this  the  "  Royal  Edition"  was  struck  off  on  vellum.  It  was  intended 
for  William  IV.,  but  he  dying  before  it  was  issued,  it  was  presented  to  her 
present  Majesty,  and  probably  is  in  the  Library  at  Windsor. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the  question  of  cost,  at  least  in  the  case  of  the 
two  more  recent  impressions,  appears  to  have  prevented  the  University 
from  printing  a  second  vellum  copy  to  be  retained  by  the  University  itself. 
Clarke  in  liis  Pvcpcrtorium,  p.  GO,  states  that  a  copy  of  the  Royal  Visit  tc 
Oxford,  printed  on  vellum  (Oxford,  Clarendon  Press,  1815),  was  presented 
by  tlie  University  (iT  Oxford  to  the  sister  University,  but  the  archives  of 


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our  University  Library  have  been  searched,  and  no  trace  of  any  such  vuhuno 
having  been  received  can  be  found.  It  may  have  been  considered  by  the 
person  commissioned  to  deliver  it  as  of  too  interesting  a  character  to 
deposit  in  a  working  library  like  that  of  Cambridge.  Van  Praet  copies 
Clarke,  and  mentions  also  as  being  at  Cambridge,  Sampsonis  (R.)  Oratio,.on 
vellum,  London,  T.  Bertlielet  n.d.  It  cannot  be  found  there :  his  authority. is 
tlie  Oxford  Cat.  of  1G97,  where  it  is  included  amongst  Bp.  I^Ioore's  books. 
Lowndes'  Manual,  last  edition,"  p.  2182,  quotes  a  similar  copy  as  occurring  in 
the  Bindley  sale.    See  also  under  No.  4S  ante. 

QUEENS'  COLLEGE  LIBRAHY. 

107*.  MisSxiLE  Sarum.  Parisiis,  2^er  FranciscuriiEcgnauIt, 
1529.    Quarto.    4  leaves  of  vellum. 

For  notes  and  references  to  this  edition,  see  post  No.  117. 


ST  CATHAEINE'S  COLLEGE  LIBRArxY. 

108.  MisSALE  Sarum,  ojyera  et  industria  magistrl  Martini 
Morin  impressoris  Botliomagi  juxta  insignem  jmoratum  Scnicti 
Laudi  commorans,  impensa  vero  Johannis  Richardi  luercatoris 
+  +  et  in  papiro  et  in  pergameno  venale  facili  pretio  cunciis  pro- 
dudum  et  exhihitum.  4  Decembr.  1407.  Folio.  4  leave.s  of 
vellum. 

The  above  imprint  is  printed  in  red:  on  the  vellum  leaves  in  the  canon 
of  the  mass  are  two  large  illuminated  woodcuts  of  the  Crucifixion  nnd  of 
the  glorified  Christ.  The  Canon  is  a  Sarum,  and  not  a  Roman,  one.  Tliere 
are  copies  wholly  on  vellum  in  the  British  ^luscum,  the  Queen's  Library  at 
AVindsor,  the  library  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  and  at  tlie  College  of  St 
Edmond's,  Herts. 

Gough,  Topog.  328.  Van  Praet,  ^nd  Cat.  i.  p.  MS. 

Dickinson,  15.  Lowndes,  1576. 

109.  MissALE  Saeum.  Parisiis,  typis  Joannis  Aiaazenr  pro 
Gulielmo  Merlin,  1555.    Folio.    2  leaves  of  vellum. 

The  two  large  woodcuts  on  the  vellum  leaves  are  coloured.  This  copy 
is  free  from  any  disfigurations  of  the  services  for  St  Thomas  (a  Becket)  tlic 
martyr's  day ;  it  has  also  parchment  labels  attached  to  the  sides  of  the 
leaves  marking  out  the  most  important  passages  in  the  book.  At  tlie  end 
are  pasted  special  prayers  and  thanksgivings  for  the  reconciliation  ol 
En-land  under  JMiili-.  and  Mary.  For  further  notes  and  details  concerning 
thil  edition,  see  under  No.  58  ante,  the  copy  in  the  University  ]>d>rary, 
and  also  No.  98  ant.;,  under  another  copy  at  Cains  Coll. 


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JESUS  COLLEGE  LIBRAEY. 

110.  LITTER.E  Lnditlgentiarum.  Issued  by  Jolm  Ken- 
dale  (Grand  Prior  of  the  Order  of  St  John  of  Jerusalem  in 
England),  to  contributors  towards  the  expenses  of  tlie  Rhodiau 
expedition.    London,  John  Lettou  (March)  1480.  Broadside. 

The  document  begins,  Frater  Johannes  Kendale  Turcipckrius 
lihodi,'"  &;c.,  and  ends  with  the  date:  millesbno  quadriugcnicsinio  octua- 
gesimor 

111.  Another  edition  of  the  same  Indulgence  hj  the  same 
printer,  1480.  Broadside. 

These  Indulgences  were  discovered,  January,  1876,  in  Jesus  College 
Library,  by  Mr  Bradshaw,  in  the  binding  of  a  Latin  Bible,  dated  Cologne, 
1480,  and  bound  in  London  soon  after,  by  John  Lettou:  they  were  cut  into 
slips  and  used  as  guards  for  the  quires,  but  Mr  Bradshaw  was  able  to 
obtain  complete  copies  of  both  editions.  Another  edition  of  this  Indul- 
gence, printed  by  Caxton,  is  in  the  British  Museum:  see  Blades'  Caxton,  ii. 
p.  79,  and  see  also  No.  101,  ante.  John  Kendal,-  the  Grand  Prior  in 
England,  was  also  locum  ienens  of  the  Grand  Master  of  the  Knights  of  St 
John  of  Jerusalem  in  Italy,  Flanders,  and  Ireland.  The  word  Turcipele- 
rius  is  explained  to  mean  General  of  the  Infantry  of  the  Order  of  St  John 
of  Jerusalem. 

112.  Breviaiuum  SECUNDUM  UsuM  Sarum.  W itliout  place, 
date,  or  jj?"//?.)!er'5  7ia7)ie.  {Parisiis,  1499  ?).  8vo.  [-r^  x  32 
inches.]    112  leaves.    Pars  Hyemalis. 

This  is  a  very  imperfect  copy  of  the  same  edition  of  the  Saruni  Breviary 
as  the  more  perfect  one  in  St  John's  College  Library.  See  post,  No.  121, 
for  the  description  of  this  edition.  In  the  present  copy  the  Proprium 
de  tempore  and  Proprium  Sanctorum  are  wanting. 

113.  Mjssale  Sarum.  Venunclatnr  in  aedihus  magidri 
Wynandi  de  ^Yorde:  aut  Richardi  Facqucs  coiiiniorantihus  in 
cymiterio  Sancti  Pauli  London.  At  the  end:  Ahsoluinni  in 
alma  Partrisium  Acad,  anno  Xjn  Sydcrum  condiioris  millcsimo 
quingentesimo  undecimo,  vj  Kl  maij.  Impensis  atqiie  sumptihus 
Wynandi  de  Worde,  Bichardi  faques,  Joh.  hienayse  et  Jacohi 

ferrehoiic  dilijcntia  vero  magistri  Budolphi  sutoris  in  paqo 
divi  Jude  in. da  Garmelitas.  Then  follows  tlu^  large  tri- 
partite device  of  De  Worde  as  figured  in  Dibdin  s  Typ.  Antiq. 
II.,  No.  V.  of  this  printer's  marks;  and  below  it:  sane  hoc  pres- 


JESUS  COLLEGE. 


41) 


vsorum  digessit  arte  magister  Wynandus  dc  Worde  incola 
Londinii.    Folio.    [13.^  x  9i|  inches  ]    2  leaves  of  vcllurn. 

This  edition  of  the  Sarum  Missal  seems  unknown ;  it  is  handsomely 
printed  in  red  and  black  in  two  columns,  and  the  vellum  leaves,  as  is  usual 
in  such  books,  are  at  the  commencement  of  the  Canon  of  the  Mass,  the  first 
one  is  occupied  by  the  usual  large  woodcut  of  the  Crucifixion.  At  the  top 
of  the  title  in  an  old  hand  is  written :  "  Liber  Thos.  Emerson  prec.  J  .9.''  The 
edition  is  not  noticed  in  DicJciyisoii's  English  Service  Books  nor  in  Loicndes' 
Manual  by  Bohn,  and  no  copy  appears  in  the  Lritish  Museum  or  the 
Bodleian  catalogues.  J.  Johnson  in  Typographia  i.  332,  mentions  a  later 
Service  book,  printed  like  this  for  D.  de  Worde,  in  Paris,  but  by  a  dilfercvit 
printer,  Paris  being  then  the  chief  manufacturing  centre,  so  to  speak,  of 
Service  books  for  the  neighbouring  countries.  See  also  under  the  Great 
Bible  of  1539,  at  St  John's,  post  No.  126. 


CHEIST'S  COLLEGE  LIBRARY. 

114.  MissALi:;  Sarum.  Londmiis,  per  Ricardum  Pynson 
8  Kal  Mart,  1512.  Folio.  [10^  a  7J  inclies.]  4  leaves  of 
vellum. 

On  the  Title  is  a  large  woodcut  of  the  Royal  Arms.  Of  the  four  vellum 
leaves  in  the  Canon  of  the  Mass,  the  first,  containing  as  usual  the  largo 
woodcut  of  the  Crucifixion,  and  the  last  are  wanting  in  this  copy  which 
shows  signs  of  considerable  use. 

Similar  copies  are  at  the  Bodleian,  and  Balliol  Coll.,  Oxford,  and  at 
the  library  of  Bamborough  Castle. 

Dickinson,  16,    This  co2->y. 

115.  Novum  Testamentum  omne,  multo  quam  antehac 
DiLiGENTius  AB  Erasmo  Roterdamo  recognitum  BasilecB  in 
wdihus  Joannis  Frobenii,  mense  Afartio,  1519.  Folio.  [12^  x  8f 
inches.]    344  leaves. 

This  is  a  beautiful  copy  of  the  2nd  edition  of  the  Greek  Testament  of 
Erasmus.  The  title  is  surrounded  with  an  elaborate  woodcut  border,  and 
tliere  are  large  woodcut  initials.  The  pages  are  ruled  with  red;  tlie 
margins  have  not  been  sufficiently  respected  by  the  binder,  but  the  volume 
is  in  perfect  condition  and  forms  a  fine  example  of  printing  on  vellum.  Ihc 
"  Annotations,"  which  would  make  a  second  volume,  arc  wantnig ;  see  post 
No  ]  24—5  for  a  later  edition  of  both  volumes. 

The  College  ha.  ..No  a  copy  of  this  edition  on  paper,  and  a  comparison 
of  the  two  volumes  well  shows  the  far  superior  beauty  and  brillia,|cy  of  ihe 
impression  on  vellum    The  only  other  copies  of  this  edition,  in  this  state, 


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seem  to  be  at  Basle,  and  in  the  Chapter  Library  at  York.  Diljdin  mention!? 
another  copy  as  belonging  to  Sir  M.  Sykes,  but  the  lust  edition  of  lirunet 
states  that  the  latter  proved  to  be  an  imperfect  copy  of  the  Lst  edition  of 
1516. 

Panzer,  yi.  p.  211.  Van  Praet,  2nd  Cat.  i.  p.  15. 

Dibdin  (T.  F.),  Libry.  Comp.,  25".  Brunet,  v.  7;j;3. 

Botficld  (B.),  Cathedral  Libr.,  p.  504. 

116.  TONSTALLI  .(CUTH.)   De    ARTE  SUPPUTANDI,  Loudini 

in  cecUbus  RicJiardi  Pynsoni  Prid.  Id.  1552.  Quarto.  [11  x  8^ 
inches.]    172  leaves. 

This  copy  is  imperfect,  >Yauting  the  two  first,  the  last,  and  several  other 
leaves,  in  all  about  thirty.  The  complete  number  is  204.  See  ante  under 
No.  43  for  the  description  of  tliis  edition  and  references.  The  margins  of 
several  of  the  pages  have  been  sadly  mutilated,  but  it  is  a  very  large  copy 
and  the  perfect  remaining  portions  are  in  the  finest  condition.  On  one  of 
the  margins  the  donor's  name  is  written  in  an  old  hand  :  ''Ex  dono  Cutk- 
herti  Watson  oUm  hiijtis  Coll.  Socius." 

117.  MisSALE  Saeum,  Far{sus,,per  Franciscuin  Ber/nault, 
in  vico  Sancti  Jacohi  e  regione,  templi  Matiitinorum  ad  signurn 
elephantis,  1529.  Quarto.   [Of  x  T-J  inches.]   4  leaves  of  vellum. 

The  vellum  leaves  are  folios  155 — 158,  inclusive;  at  the  ejid  is  the 
device  of  the  printer,  and  the  volume  is  in  fine  condition. 
Similar  copies  arc  at  Queens'  Coll.,  see  ante  No.  107*,  the  Bodleian,  and 
Uriel  College,  Oxford. 

Dickinson,  10.    This  copij.  Cough's  Topography,  it.  3-U. 

ST  JOHN'S  COLLEGE  LIBEAEY. 

118.  BoNTFAci  Pap/E  VIII.  Liber  Sextus  decretalium 
una  cum  apparatu  domini  Johannis  Andrem  per  singularem 
juris  iitriusque  doctorem  dominum  Alexandrum  Neuuni  emen- 
datus.  Yenetiis,  opera  atque  -  impensa  Xicolai  Jenson  Gallki, 
1476.    Folio.    [151  X  lOJ  inches.] 

Printed  in  Gothic  letter,  in  two  columns.  This  work,  known  as  the 
Sext,"  formed,  like  the  two  succeeding  works,  a  portion  of  the  Canon  Law 
or  the  ecclesiastical  Constitutions  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  For  an 
account  of  the  distinguished  Canonist  of  the  XlVth  century,  John  Andreas, 
Bishop  of  Aleria,  see  Beloe's  Anecdotes  of  Literature,  iii.  274. 

This  copy  -was  the  gift  of  Thomas  Morton,  Fellow  of  the  College,  and 
Bishop  of  Durhain  in  1632. 

Four  copies  on  vellum  only  appear  to  be  known.    The  only  one  in  this 


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51 


country  is  in  Lord  Spencer's  library,  another,  the  Pinelli  and  Macarthy 
copy,  is  in  the  Js^'ational  Library,  Paris. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat-  ii.  IG.  Panzer,  nr.  114,  Xo.  223. 

Hain,  ^3592.  lloltrop,  Bibl.  Ilagiana,  393,  Xo.  407. 

119.  Clementis  Pap^  Y.  Constitutioxes  una  cum  ap- 
paratu  D.  Joliannis  Andrea).  Veneiiis,  cere  atque  industria 
Nicolai  Gallici,  1476.  "Folio.  [15^.  x  lOJ  inches..] 

Tliis  copy  of  the  work,  known  as  tlic  "  Clementines/'  is  bound  with  the 
preceding  bat  is  an  entirely  distinct  work  ;  it  is  printed  in  Gothic  letter,  in 
two  columns,  and  of  course  comes  from  the  same  donor,  Bp.  I!\Iorton.  Pivo 
copies  on  vellum,  besides  this,  appear  to  be  known,  including  Lord 
Spencei-'s,  and  one  in  the  National  Library,  Paris. 

Van  Praet,  1st  Cat.  ii.  p.  24.  Panzer,  nr.  p.  114,  Xo.  222. 

Ilain,  *5417.  Holtrop,  Bibl.  Ilagiana,  393. 

120.  Gratiani  Decretum,  cum  apparatu  BartholomKi 
Brixiensis  et  Joliannis  Tlieutonici.  Veneiiis  Impress,  siiujulari 
industria  oique  impensa  Nicolai  Jenson,  Gallici,  1477.  Folio. 
[16^  x-11  inches.] 

Printed  in  Gothic  letter,  two  columns  of  64  lines  each.  These  "  Decre- 
tals" or  Decrees  of  Gratian,  first  arranged  in  1150,  comprise  ecclesiastical 
legislation  from  the  time  of  Constantino  tlie  Great,  at  the  beginning  of  the 
ivth  to  that  of  Pope  Alexander  IIP  at  the  end  of  the  xirtli 
century.  This  most  ponderous  volume  of  Canon  Law,  like  the  two 
preceding  works,  is  in  fine  condition,  and  is  also  due  to  the  benefaction  of 
Bp.  Morton.  Xo  similar  copy  appears  to  be  in  this  country,  but  there  are 
copies  in  the  X'^ational  Library,  Paris,  and  in  the  library  of  Wolfenbutel. 

Ilartshorne,  383.    This  coj^y.         Van.  Praet,  1st  Cat.  n.  p.  5. 

Panzer,  in.  p.  123.  Hain,  7890. 

121.  Breviarium  secundum  usum  Ecclesle  Salisburi- 
ENSIS.  Without  place,  date,  or  printer  s  name  {Parisiis  1499  ?}. 
Octavo.    [5^  X  3J  inches.]    304  leaves. 

This,  the  Pars  Hyemalis  of  an  edition  of  the  Salisbury  Breviary,  is 
printed  in  two  colunms  of  37  lines  in  each.  Three  leaves  arc  wanting,  one 
of  which  is  supplied  by  paper;  the  existing  number  is  therefore  302.  It 
contains  :  Calendar,  8  leaves ;  Psalter  and  Litany,  72  leaves ;  Conununo 
Sanctorum,  24  leaves;  Dedication  Service  and  Servitium  B.  Uar'ix  V. 
8  leaves.  Pars  hyemalis  (Advent  to  end  of  Whitsunweek) :  Propriuni  do 
tempore,  144  le:v.'<-<  ;  Proprium  Sanctorum,  48  leaves.  For  the  above  col- 
lation the  write;-  is  indebted  to  :\[r  Bradshaw,  the  University  Librarian. 

This  edition  corresponds  in  size,  appearance.  No.  of  columns  and  lines, 
with  an  edition  ii.' fortunately  containing  the  Pars  iEstivalis,  or  otUv.r  part 

4—2 


52 


BOOKS  PIIIXTED  OX  VELLUM. 


only  of  a  Sarum  Breviary  in  the  British  Museum,  C.  41  a.,  at  the  bottom  of 
the  last  page  of  which  is  "Impressus  Parisiis  anno  dni  M.CCCC  nona-csi- 
mo  none  "  without  the  printer's  name.  In  the  copy  under  notice  the  tabula 
festoriim  mobilium  takes  the  year  14S6  for  its  starting  point.  At  the  end  is 
written  "anno  dni  M.CCCCXXXIII  anno  regis  Ilenrici  Octavi  XXV''"  but 
the  book  is  without  doubt  a  deal  older  than  this.  The  initials  are  illumi- 
nated and  the  vokinie  is  in  very  good  condition,  and  is  one  of  the  books 
given  to  the  college  by  Henry  Wriothesly,  Earl  of  Southampton,  of  Trinity 
Hall,  the  patron  of  Shakespeare.  For  another  copy  of  this  edition  see 
No.  112.  ' 

122.  MisSALE  Sarum,  In  Parisiorum  Academia  opera 
Wolfgangi  Hopijlii,  impensis  Francisci  Byrhnan  7  Febr.,  151 1 
(1510—11)  et  10  Kal.  Apr.  1510  (23  Mart.,  1510—1]).  Folio. 
[12 J  X  8|  inches.]    2  leaves  of  vellum. 

Other  copies  of  this  edition  are  in  the  University  Library  (see  ante, 
No.  30  for  remarks  respecting  this  edition  and  for  references),  and  in  the 
library  of  Emmanuel  College  (see  No.  149,  post). 

.  123.  MissALE  Sarum.  {RotJiomagi)  Petr.  Olivier,  exp>ensis 
Jacohi  Cousin,  1519,  21^  Decembr.  Folio.  [10|  x  7-J  inches.] 
2  leaves  of  vellum. 

In  this  copy  the  title  is  wanting.  Inside  the  cover  is  written  the 
donor's  name:  "  ex  dono  Magistri  Gent  Ecdesiw  Burhroo/:e  in  Essexia 
rectorls,  Itujusqne  Collegii  alumnus!'  For  remarks  respecting  this  edition 
and  references,  see  post  No.  137,  under  the  more  perfect  but  similar  copy 
at  Trinity  College. 

12^.  Novum  Test  amentum  ex  Erasmi  Eoteroda:mi  re- 
COGNITIONE.  Basilece  in  cedihus  Joannis  Frohenii  mense 
Martio,  1527.    Folio.    [131  x  9|  inches.]    297  leaves. 

Tliis  is  the  fourth  edition  of  the  Greek  Testament  of  Erasmus,  and  the 
first  tliat  he  corrected  from  the  Complutensian  Polyglott.  It  contains  in 
three  columns  the  Greek  text,  the  Latin  version  of  Erasmus  and  the  Latin 
A'ulgate.  This  copy  is  in  fine  condition,  but,  unfortunately,  the  elaborate 
wood-cut  border  has  been  cut  away  from  the  title ;  there  are,  however, 
other  borders  remaining  in  the  volume.  Dr  Dibdin  in  his  Introduction  to 
the  Classics  mentions  a  vellum  copy  at  St  Jehu's  College,  Cambridge,  but 
wrongly  states  it  to  be  the  fifth  edition,  of  1535.  See  also  No.  115.  From 
the  College  Book-plate  inserted  in  this  volume  it  would  appear  to  have 
entered  the  library  i.i  or  before  the  year  1700,  as  tliat  date  appears  on  it. 
No  similar  copy  of  ii::>  edition  seems  known. 

Dibdin,  T.  F.,  Iwiv.  Classics,  I.  iii.    This  crqvj . 

Panzer,  VI.  257.  Briinet,  v.  151G. 


ST  JOHN'S  COLLEGE. 


125.  Adnotationes  Erasmi  Roterodami  in  Novum  Testa- 
menturn  Basile^e  apud  Joannem  Frobenium  meiise  Februario, 
1527.  Folio.    [13ix  9  inches.]    321  leaves. 

This  volume  of  Commentaries  is  in  the  paper  copies  often  bound  with 
the  preceding,  but  is  here,  being  on  vellum,  bound  separately,  and  it  forms  a 
volume  nearly  equal  in  size  to  the  Greek  Testament.  The  date  on  its  title, 
it  will  be  seen,  is  placed  a  month  earlier  than  on  that  of  the  Testament. 

The  number  of  leaves  stated  above  is  that  at  present  remaining,  at 
least  9  or  10  are  wanting  at  the  end  of  the  volume. 

Panzer,  vi.  257. 

126.  The  Byble  m  Exglyshe  truly  translated  after  tlie 
veryte  of  the  Hebrue  and  Greke  textes,  (Paris  and)  London, 
Rychard  Grafton  and  Edward  Whitchurch.  Apryl,  1539. 
Folio.  [1G{-  X  Hi  inches.]  582  leaves  including  a  blank  one 
after  the  second  part  of  the  Prophets. 

This  is  the  first  edition  of  the  "  Great,"  or  Crumwell's  Bible,  and  this 
copy  is  that  specially  printed  on  vellum  for  Thomas,  Lord  Crumwell,  under 
whose  auspices  this  edition  was  issued.  This  edition  was  prepared  for  the 
press  by  Coverdale,  and  as  the  resources  of  the  English  press  were  not 
adequate  to  carry  it  out  as  Crumwell  wished,  Coverdale,  with  Grafton  and 
Whitchurch,  proceeded  to  Paris  to  superintend  its  printing  tliere,  on  a 
magnificent  scale,  by  Regnault,'in  1538;  but  on  Dec.  17  in  that  year,  when 
the  work  was  nearly  finished,  an  order  from  the  Inquisitor  General  for 
France  stopped  the  further  progress  of  the  Avork.  Coverdale  and  Graftuu 
managed  to  convey  the  presses,  types,  and  workmen  to  London,  where  the 
edition  was  completed.  This  Bible  is  printed  in  large  black  letter,  with 
five  large  and  elaborate  woodcut  titles  to  the  several  portions  of  the 
volume,  and  numerous  woodcuts.  Tliese  five  titles  are  beautifully  illumi- 
nated, ail  the  large  woodcuts  are  similarly  treated,  and  there  are  hundreds 
of  initials  delicately  painted  in  gold  and  colours,  the  whole  finished  in  a 
manner  equal  to  the  best  illuminated  manuscripts  of  that  date.  This  truly 
magnificent  book  is  in  the  most  desirable  condition,  the  vellum  of  even 
texture  and  perfect  whiteness,  with  ample  margins,  and  assuredly  warrants 
Mr  Hartshorne's  assertion  respecting  it,  that  it  "maybe  considered  the 
finest  book  on  vellum  that  exists.''  Dr  J.  S.  ^Yood,  the  President  of  the 
College,  obhgingly  informs  the  writer  that  though  there  is  no  authentic 
information,  yet  it  is  highly  probable  that  this  Bible  came  from  Archbishop 
Williams  (the  munificent  contributor  to  the  erection  of  the  library)  whose 
books  were  to  have  come  to  St  John's,  but  there  is  some  mystery  about 
his  library,  and  it  is  not  certain  whether  any  of  his  books  came  to  the 
College,  which,  b^v  .  ver,  has  tlie  MS.  Catalogue  of  his  library,  where  there 
is  the  following  eni  -y,  "Bible,  English,  printed  on  Velams  very  fnire  1539," 
with  the  words  "  co-ered  with  red  velvet "  added  in  a  difi*erer.t  hand.  The 


5^1. 


BOOKS  rUTNTED  ON  VELLUM. 


binding  is  now  different,  being  of  purple  morocco  of  much  later  date,  but  it 
seems  very  likely  that  the  book  is  the  same.  IIy  Thos.  Baker,  the  Anti- 
quary, in  1710  shewed  this  copy  to  the  literary  Baron  von  Uflenbach,  who 
visited  the  Cambridge  libraries  in  that  year;  see  the  Ilird  volume  of 
Uffenbach's  Reisen  durch  Holland,  Engelland,  &c.,  Ulm,  1754,  wlicre 
this  copy  is  described.  Van  Praet,  by  a  mistake,  in  quoting  the  Baron, 
places  this  book  and  a  1465  Mentz  Cicero  in  "  Pcterhouse  College  library," 
whicli  has  neither,  though  it  possesses  a  volume  of  the  Mentz  Bible  of  14G2, 
on  vellum;  see  ante,  No.  93."'  From  a  letter  written  by  Covcrdale  and 
Grafton  to  Crumwell,  and  dated  Paris,  June  23  (1538),  the  writers  state 
that  they  intend  to  print  two  copies  only  on  vellum,  one  for  Crumwell 
himself  and  the  other  for  the  King :  the  laiter  has  disappeared.  The 
vellum  copy  in  the  British  Museum,  at  one  time  frequently  considered 
identical  with  this,  is  a  later,  and  entirely  different  edition  (Cranmcr's), 
with  altered  titles  and  woodcuts,  printed  in  1540,  after  Crum well's  death, 
therefore  the  copy  under  notice  has  the  additional  interest  of  being  unique, 
and  is  quite  perfect. 

Jlartshorne,  404.  This  cop7j.     Lowndes,  Bohn's  Ed.,  17G.    TJds  copy. 

Cotton  (Dr)  Eds.  of  Bible  15,  279.    This  coinj. 

Uffenbach  (Z.  C.  von),  Reisen  iii.  53.    This  copy. 

Westcott  (B.  F.),  Hist.  Bible,  95.  This  copy.    Dibdin,  Typ.  Ant.  in.  43S. 

127.  MissALE  SaPcUIM,  Lnpressum  Farisiis  in  vico  Sdi 
Jacohi  i)i  wdihus  Francisci  Jtegnault  lihrarii  jurati  alince 
Farisiensis.  Without  date,  (but  not  later  tlian  1550).  Folio. 
[13  X  9  inches.]    234  leaves. 

This  fine  vellum  copy  of  the  Salisbury  Missal  is  imperfect,  the  title,  the 
first  leaf  of  the  Calendar,  and  the  woodcut  of  the  Crucifixion  are  wanting, 
so  there  arc  at  present  231  leaves.  The  page  consists  of  two  columns,  each 
of  43  lines.  On  folio  1  is  a  large  woodcut  and  border.  With  the  above 
exceptions  the  volume  is  well  preserved  and  is  in  a  fine  old  binding  of 
leather-covered  thick  oak  boards  with  massive  bosses.  Regnault  the  printer 
died  about  the  year  1550.  Presented  to  the  college  by  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Southampton,  son  of  the  donor  of  the  above  described  Saruni  Breviary. 
See  ante,  No.  121. 

Ilartshorne  388,  This  copy.  Dickinson  19,  This  copy. 

MAGDALENE  COLLEGE,  PEPYSIAN  LIBEARY. 

128.  The  Hystory  sege  and  dystruccyon  of  Tkoye, 

TRANSLATED  BY  JOHN  LYDGATE  MOXKE  OF  THE  MONASTERY  OF 

Bury,  and  Eiaprj/ided  at  the  commaundment  of  cure  Souraygne 
Lord  tlte  hynge  Jfenry  the  VLIL  By  Richard e  Fyiisoii,  pryntcr 
unto  his  most  noble  grace,  1513.    Folio.    [12  x  8 J  inches.] 


i 


MAGDALENE  COLLEGE. 


55 


^  On  the  title  is  a  large  woodcut  of  the  king's  arms,  and  on  the  reverse  is 
a  singular  cut  of  the  city  of  Troy,  with  soldiers  before  it  firing  great  guns, 
&c. ;  there  are  many  other  cuts  dispersed  throughout  the  volume,  amongst 
them  a  fine  large  one  of  King  Henry  V.  sitting  in  a  large  room,  with  ofRcers 
attending  him,  receiving  this  book  from  Lydgate  the  monk,  who  is  kneeling. 
The  book  is  in  verse,  printed  in  double  columns,  and  is  a  paraphrase  of 
Guido  de  Colonna  entitled  Historia  Trojana,  which  is  taken  from  Dares 
Phrygius.  This  beautiful  copy  is  in  a  sound,  well-preserved  state,  and  is  in 
a  somewhat  ancient  binding  of  oak  boards  covered  with  brown  calf  with 
gilt  edges.  Bequeathed  by  the  well  known  diarist,  and  Secretary  to  the 
Admiralty,  Samuel  Fepys,  coming  with  the  rest  of  his  choice  library 
into  the  possession  of  the  College  in  1703.  Only  three  other  copies  of  this 
book  in  any  state  are  known,  the  only  other  on  vellum  is  at  Bamborough 
Castle,  and  is  in  every  way  inferior  to  this. 

Hartshorn e,  244,  This  copjf. 

Repertorium  Bibliographicum  120,  TJus  copy. 

Dibdin,  Typog.  Antiq.  ii.  447. 

129.  Heures  a  lusaige  du  Mans,  Paris,  pour  Simo/i 
Vost)'e  libraire  demourant  en  la  rue  neufue  a  le  seyue  S.  JeJian, 
leuangl.  1515.    Octavo.    [GJ  x  4-^  inches.]    ISO  leaves. 

On  the  first  page  below  S.  Vostre's  device  is  the  above  title  and  in 
addition  the  folio^Ying : — "Avee  les  figures  et  signes  de  I'apocalypse,  la  vie  do 
Thobie  et  de  judic,  les  accidens  de  rhomme,  le  triomphe  de  Cesar,  les 
miracles  de  nostre  dame."  There  is  no  date,  but  the  Almanac  extends  from 
1515 — 1530.  The  volume  is  in  capital  condition.  The  large  woodcuts  17  in 
number,  and  the  woodcut  borders  to  each  page  are  uncoloured  ;  it  is,  like 
most  of  Pepys'  books,  bound  in  brown  sprinldcd  Cambridge  calf  with  a 
portrait  of  the  owner  inserted  :  neither  Van  Pract  nor  Brunet  mention  this 
edition  of  the  Le  Mans  "Hours",  which  has  22  lines  to  the  page. 

130.  M.ISSALE  Sarum.  Londini  j^er  Eichardum  Fynson, 
in  Flete  Strete  apud  divum  Dunstanum  commorantem,  1520. 
9  kal.  Jaiiuarii.    Folio.    [151-  x  l^i  inclies.] 

The  arms  of  England  and  France  are  on  the  title,  and  other  large  wood- 
cuts appear  in  this  volume,  which  is  printed  in  two  columns  in  black  and 
red,  in  a  fine  square  missal  type ;  it  is  the  same  edition  as  Xos.  40  and 
150,  but  is  without  the  special  arms  and  inscriptions  of  the  former  copy 
in  tiie  University  library,  which  see  for  references.  The  copy  under  notice 
is  the  finest  of  the  three  at  Cambridge,  even  surpassing  that  in  the  Uni- 
versity library,  and  is  in  the  finest  possible  condition,  and  nothing  can  bo 
more  splendid  tlian  the  beauty  of  the  vellum  and  the  brilliancy  of  the  letter 
press;  it  is  wlu^lly  uncoloured,  and  is  bound  in  old  blue  morocco  with  gilt 
edges,  and  forms  a  magnificent  example  of  typography. 

Hartshorne  245,  This  co2)>/. 


BOOKS  FEINTED  ON  VELLUM. 


131.  Calendar  or  Almanac,  London,  Wynlajn  de  Worde, 
1523.  Broadside. 

The  writer  was  unable  to  find  this  Calendar  described  by  Mr  llartshorne. 
The  old  MS.  Catalogue  contains  several  old  Calendars,  but  neither  he  nor 
the  librarian  of  the  College  Avere  able  to  identify  this,  it  is  however  scarcely 
likely  that  any  books  so  carefully  guarded  as  Pepys'  books  are  should  dis- 
appear, and  therefore  he  has  admitted  it  provisionally.  This  however 
forms  the  only  instance  in  Ayhich  he  is  unable  to  speak  with  certainty  as  to  the 
existence  of  any  book  admitted  on  this  list. 

llartshorne  238,  This  copy. 

131'^.  Calendar  or  AL^rANAC,  without  place,  name,  or 
printed  date,  {but  jwohaUy  London,  and  dated  in  MS.  1530). 
Broadside.    [30  x  4  J  inches.) 

This  Ephemeris  or  perpetual  Calendar,  fohls  up  into  a  small  size  for  the 
pocket,  and  seems  wholly  printed  from  wood-blocks.  The  woodcuts  which 
are  rudely  coloured  represent  astronomical  objects  and  signs,  with  their 
various  astrological  influences.  In  addition  to  the  date  there  is  also  in 
MS.  that  the  Calendar  is  "secundum  usum  Sarum  non  Romanum,"  the  rest 
is  thiimbed  out.  As  De  Worde  died  about  ir,34-5,  if  the  date  denote  the 
year  of  printing,  it  cannot  bo  the  same  Calendar  as  that  mentioned  by 
Mr  llartshorne,  see  above. 

132.  The  Assyse  of  Bread,  what  it  ought  to  waye  after 
the  prj^ce  of  a  quarter  of  wheat,  and  also  the  assvsc  of  al  mancr 
of  wood,  lathe,  bourde,  and  tymbre  and  the  waight  of  butyre 
and  chese,  enprynted  at  the  request  of  Mychaell  Englysshe  and 
John  Budstoiie  alderman  of  the  Cyte  of  London.  Lnjyrjjnted 
by  Rychard  Banlces  cum  privilegio.  [London  c.  1527).  Quarto. 
12  leaves. 

The  above  title  is  over  a  woodcut  in  four  compartmeats  ;  the  printer  s 
name  is  given  at  the  end :  there  are  other  cuts  in  the  volume  which  is 
printed  in  black  letter  on  coarse  parchment.  The  John  Rudstone  mentioned 
above  was  Lord  Mayor  in  1528.  The  work  is  bound  with  sundry  other 
tracts.  The  writer  is  indebted  for  this  notice  to  Mr"\V.  Carew  Ilazlitt,  who 
in  a  communication  to  him  of  June  8,  1877,  states  ho  lately  saw  it  in  the 
Pepysian,  but  did  not  take  the  press  mark  :  he  allows  his  name  to  be  used 
as  an  authority  for  its  existence;  the  writer  has  in  vain  searched  every 
likely  item  in  the  insufficient  Catalogue.  Mr  ILartshorne's  account  is  very 
inexact. 

llartshorne  238,  This  copy. 


TRINITY  COLLEGE. 


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TEINITY  COLLEGE  LIBEARY. 

133.  MissALE  Sarum,  London,  Bich.  Fynson,  mandato  et 
impensis  Reverendissimi  Joli.  Morton  Presbyter!  Cardinalis 
Cantuariensis  Archiepiscopi  1500,  Jan,  10.  Folio.  [12|- x  8J 
inches.]    252  leaves. 

This  is  the  second  edition  of  the  Salisbury  Missal  printed  in  TJnrfland. 
(The  earliest  being  the  very  rare  edition  printed  by  J.  Xotarie  and  Job. 
Barbier  in  1498,  a  copy  of  which  is  preser\xd  in  the  University  Library.) 
The  Canon  (5  leaves)  of  the  copy  under  notice  is  supplied  by  MS.  The  leaf 
containing  the  Royal  arms  and  those  of  Cardinal  Morton,  at  whose  expense 
this  Missal  was  issued,  has  been  removed,  and  the  imprint  with  Pynson's 
device  has  been  very  carefully  erased.  Red  lines  are  ruled  under  each  line 
of  type,  and  thus  with  so  much  of  its  identity  destroyed,  and  the  capitals 
and  v/oodcut  borders,  of  which  there  are  several,  illuminated  most  brilliantly, 
the  volume  bears  a  close  resemblance  to  a  MS,  on  vellum,  and  was  probably 
intended  to  pass  as  such.  On  the  first  page  is  emblazoned— Quarterly,  1  and 
4,  Az.  a  griiBn  passant,  or  holding  a  branch  vert ;  2  and  3  Arg.  3  cross  bows 
stringed  and  barbed  gules.  It  is  finely  printed  in  red  and  black  39  lines 
to  the  page,  is  in  si:)lendid  condition  and  is  bound  in  a  fine  old  stamped 
vellum  binding  on  oak  boards  with  metal  bosses  and  clasps  complete. 
Presented  by  Sir  Edward  Stanhope,  Fellow  of  the  College  in  1566,  founder 
of  the  librarianship  of  Trinity  College,  and  a  considerable  benefactor  both 
in  money  and  books  to  the  college  librar}^  Similar  copies  of  this  Missal 
are  at  Emmanuel  College,  see  post  No.  146,  St  John's  Coll.  Oxford,  and  in 
Lord  Spencer's  library.  Bnmet  states  that  this  edition  of  the  Sarum  Missal 
was  so  rigidly  suppressed  that  but  one  copy,  Lord  Spencer's,  is  known ;  hero 
then  arc  three  others. 

Sinker  (R.),  XV.  Century  Books  in  Trin.  Coll. Camb.  p.  3.  No.  9.  This  copy. 
Dibdin  (T.  F.),  iEdes  Althorp.  n.  193. 

Van  Pract,  2nd  Catalogue  i.  p.  148.  Hain,  11424. 

Ebcrt  (F.)  Bibliog.  Diet.  1120.  Brunet  i.  1244. 

134.  Les  GEuvres  de  Senecque,  translateez  do  Latin  en 
Francoys  par  maistre  Laurens  de  Premier  fait  Paris  pour 
Anthoine  Verard,  (without  date,  but  about  1500—1503.)  Folio. 
[12-5  X  9  inches.]    120  leaves. 

Printed  in  Gothic  letter,  40  lines  to  a  page.  On  tlic  second  leaf  is  a 
finely  painted  miniature  about  6  inches  square,  representing  the  translator 
on  his  knees  in  tlio  act  of  offering  his  work  to  King  Charles  VL  and  his 
uncles  the  Dukes  'SI  iorry  and  of  Orleans.  The  perfect  state  of  preservation 
in  v/hich  this  beautiful  volume  is,  the  purity  of  the  vellum,  the  brilliancy  of 
the  printing,  and  tlv)  gi-ace  of  the  painted  capitals,  all  warrant  the  belief 


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that  this  copy  may  have  been  specially  prepared  for  one  of  these  Royal 
personages.    Another  copy  on  vellum  is  in  the  National  l.ihrary,  Paris. 

Sinker  (R.)  XV.  Cent.. Books  in  Trin.  Coll.  p.  41,  Xo.  iry,].  This  copy. 

Hartshorne  2S2,  This  coj)]}.  J^runot  v.  277. 

Van.  Praet  1st  Cat.,  nr.  18.  liain,  14593. 

135.  H011.T5   SECUNDUM  USUM  (RoMANUM),  without  ])hLCe, 

date,  or  2)rinters  name.  {Faris,  1497.)  Octavo.  [GC'  x  4]- 
incbes.]    12G  leaves.  • 

This  Book  of  Hours  is  defective  at  the  end,  wanting  the  last  leaf,  also 
the  lOSth  ai)d  119tli.  It  is  printed  in  Gothic  letter,  with  22  lines  to  the 
page.  On  leaf  18^^  below  the  cut  of  the  tree  of  Jesse  is  the  title  of  the 
Book.  "Ilore  intemerate  virginis  Marie  secundum  usuni"  (a  blank  left  in 
the  book).  The  use  is  Roman.  On  the  first  page  is  a  representation  of  the 
San  Graal  or  miraculous  Chalice;  there  are  woodcut  borders  to  every  page, 
and  including  the  anatomical  man  eighteen  large  woodcuts,  all  uncoloured. 

The  Almanac  is  from  1497—1520.    Presented  July  1873,  by  the  writer. 

Sinker  (R.)  XV.  Cent.  Books  in  Trin.  Coll.  p.  50,  Xo.  17s,  This  copy. 

136.  Liber  Conformitatum,  opus  aure.-e  et  tnexplica- 
BILIS  bonitatis  et  contincntiaB  :  Conformitatum  scilicet  vitie 
B.  Francisci  ad  vitam  domini  nostri  Jesu  Christi.  Mediolani,  in 
^dibits  Zanoti  Castilionei,  1513.  Folio.  [12  x  8  incljes.]  244 
leaves,  2  of  vellum. 

The  second  edition,  an  exact  reprint  of  the  original  edition  of  1510. 
The  two  vellum  leaves  in  this  copy  are,  a  duphcate  title  page,  which  has  a 
dilVerent  woodcut  border  to  the  paper  one,  and  leaf  IG,  containing  the 
dedication  :  Reverendissimo  dno  dno  Marco  Vegerio,  Ei)isc.  Prenestinen, 
&c.".  On  both  titles  is  a  large  woodcut  of  our  Lord  Christ  bearing  his  cross, 
followed  by  St  Francis  bearing  a  cross  also,  and  there  are  several  woodcut 
borders  and  initials.  Gothic  letter,  2  columns.  This  work,  written  by 
Fr.  Barthol.  Albizzi,  the  Tuscan  Cordelier,  is  equally  celebrated  for  its 
blasphemy  and  absurdities,  and  has  been  ably  exposed  in  the  fiimous 
Alcoran  des  Cordeliers.  Panzer  gives  the  curious  colophon  in  full.  This 
copy  in  perfect  preservation  is  from  the  Libri  collection,  formed  part  of  t!ic 
magnificent  bequest  of  nearly  10,000  volumes,  by  i\Ir  Grylls,  (fonnerly 
scholar  of  the  college),  in  1863. 

Panzer  vii.  p.  393,  Xo.  129.  Brunet  iii.  1053. 

137.  MisSALE  Sarum.  {Ixotlwmagi)  opera  maghtri  Petri 
Olivier-  expcnsis  Jacohi  Cousin  elimatissime  iinpressum,  1519, 
24  Decembr.    Folio.    [10§  x  7}  inclies.]    2  leaves  of  vellum. 

The  Initial  of  the  word  "Missale"  on  the  title  of  this  Salisbury  Missal 
is  of  considerable  size,  and  printed  in  rod ;  it  is  similar  to  that  used  by  the 


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same  printer  in  the  York  Missal  of  1516,  see  No.  3G,  and  like  it  lias  tlio 
printer's  name  P.  Ilolivier  on  a  ribbon.  Mr  Dickinson,  and  Mr  Bolm  in 
Iiis  edition  of  Lowndes,  avIio  copies  INIr  Dickinson's  list  of  Service  Books, 
quotes  this  edition  as  printed  at  Paris  by  Olivier,  probably  the  inqjrint 
being  misunderstood,  tlicre  being  no  place  of  printing  mentioned,  and  a 
portion  of  it  running  "juxta.  exemplar  pridem  parisiis  impressum,"  then 
follows  "opera  IMngistri  Petri  etc."  as  above,  the  word  parisiis  may  have 
caused  the  mistake.  The  College  is  indebted  to  a  former  College  butler 
for  this  volume,  for  inside  the  cover  is  written  in  an  old  hand  "  Ex  dono 
Joliannis  Valcrin  Ilujus  Collegii  Promi."  A  similar  but  loss  perfect  copy  is 
at  St  John's  College,  sec  No.  123. 

138.  liOE^  AD  USUM  Saeum,  Par{skL<^  x>er  TIermanum 
Hardouyn  commorantem  inter  duas  portas  Palatii  Jienis  ad 
intersignum  divce  Margareie,  1528,  Octavo.  [G{r  x  4  inches.] 
120  leaves. 

This  edition  of  the  Sarum  Hours  is  without  date.  The  Almanac  or 
Easter  table  runs  from  1528 — 154L  This  volume  is  printed  in  Gothic 
letter,  32  lines  to  the  page,  is  in  very  fine  condition  and  quite  perfect.  On 
the  first  leaf  is  the  printer's  device.  The  large  woodcuts,  twelve  in  number 
besides  Ilardouyn's  device,  are  illuminated  and  have  painted  borders  of 
architectural  character,  but  there  are  no  woodcut  borders  in  the  volume. 
At  the  beginning  opposite  page  1,  a  much  larger  illuminated  woodcut  from 
a  different  edition,  representing  the  Annunciation,  has  been  inserted.  The 
binding  has  been  a  very  sumptuous  one :  the  sides  which  probably  were 
originally  covered  with  fish  skin  are  enclosed  by  broad  chased  rims  of 
silver  gilt,  with  cusps  or  projections  from  the  inner  edges.  In  the  centre 
of  each  side  is  a  silver  gilt  boss  set  with  a  jasper  or  hyacinth  stone,  and 
the  silver  gilt  clasps,  one  of  which  remains,  are  similarly  ornamented  with 
gems.  At  the  beginning  is  the  j\IS.  note  "  Donum  Dominrv  Anne  SadlcrJ' 
This  Dame  Anna  Sadleir  was  also  the  donor  of  several  invaluable  ^iSS.  to 
the  library.  The  letter  of  thanks  from  the  college  (in  which,  by  the  way, 
this  very  beautiful  volume  is  styled  a  MS.)  is  dated  Aug.  10,  lOGO.  A 
similar  copy,  but  very  inferior  in  size,  measuring  only  G  x  S  V  inches,  and  in 
poor  condition,  is  in  the  Maskell  Collection,  British  Museum. 

139.  Stur^iti  (Joitannis)  De  Periodts  Liber  Umi.=, 
Argentorati,  VuendeUnus  Eihelius,  1550.  Octavo.  [G^  x  4| 
inches.]    38  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter,  on  the  title  is  a  woodcut  of  a  female  figure 
holding  a  square,  a  saw,  and  other  implements.  On  the  second  leaf  is  the 
following  dedication  to  the  Princess  Elizabeth  1)y  the  author :  "Ad  lllus- 
trissimumD.D.  Eli/;.^)otam  Ilcnrici  Octavi  Angli:x)  Regis  Filiam  Joaimcs 
Sturmius  de  Pcri..L]is  ;"  and  in  the  preface,  the  author,  Jolm  Sturm,  Hector 
of  the  Protestant  Crlloge  at  Strasburg  and  sometimes  called  the  German 


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Cicero,  makes  mention  of  the  industry  and  intelligence  of  tlie  Princess 
under  her  tutor  Roger  Ascham,  and  expresses  a  hope  tliat  this  work  might 
be  so  fortunate  as  to  teach  her  something  that  her  tutor  had  omittecrto 
do.  The  'vvork  seems  to  be  a  treatise  on  the  Art  of  Composition  or  Logic. 
It  is  bound  in  old  blue  satin  with  gilt  edges,  is  in  fine  condition  and  has 
every  appearance  of  being  intended  for  presentation,  ^'o  similar  copy 
appears  to  have  been  described  by  bibliographers. 

140.  MARIANiE  "  (JOANNIS)    HiSPANI,    E    SOC.    JksU,  De 

Kege  et  Regis  Institutione  Ltbri  III.  ad  Philippun/  III. 
Hispaniai  Kegem  Catliolicum.  Toleti,  ajnid  Petruni  Boderkum 
typo.  MegiumCum  Privilegio,  J??«o  1599.  Quarto.  [8x0  inches.] 
232  leaves,  4  of  vellum. 

The  title  and  three  following  leaves  are  of  vellum  in  this  copy.  The  book 
is  very  handsomely  printed  in  large  Roman  letter  with  woodcut  initials 
and  handsome  woodcut  head-  and  tail- pieces.  On  the  title  is  a  largo  cut 
of  the  arms  of  Spain.  This  is  the  very  rare  original  edition  of  a  M-ork 
the  publication  of  which  caused  considerable  excitement,  and  which  was 
suppressed  in  Spain  at  the  request  of  the  French  Court  after  it  had  incurred 
the  censure  of  the  Parliament  of  Paris.  It  has  27  long  lines  to  a  page. 
From  the  Grylls  Collection,  bequeathed  to  the  college  in  1S63,  see  ante, 
No.  13G. 

JBrunet  iii.  1422. 

141.  Valexs  (Petrus)  de  Natali  dominico  Lemmata  pro 
stretiis.  Without  date,  j)/ace  or  printers  name.  (Paris,  Ant. 
Estienne  about  1G20?).    Quarto.    [8 J  x  G  inclics.]    4-  leaves. 

Printed  in  Italic  letter,  the  dedication  on  the  first  page  is  illuminated 
in  gold  and  colours  and  runs  as  follows,  "ad  Illustriss.  atque  omnique 
pietate  colenduin  D.D.  FR.  A.  RVPIFVCALDO,  SRE  Cardinalem 
magnum  Francite  Eleemosynarium  Mjjecenatem  meum  ac  Patronum 
Optimum.^'  In  this  copy  the  second  "que"  after  "omni"  has  been  care- 
fully covered  by  a  painted  panel,  and  it  may  perhaps  be  that  presented  hy 
the  author,  the  Regius  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University  of  Paris,  to  his 
patron  the  literary  Cardinal  de  la  Rochefoucault  who  procured  him  his])ost 
and  who  was  the  founder  of  the  college  and  library  of  Ste.  Genevieve,  and 
whose  name  is  latinized  in  the  above  dedication.  From  the  Jyingrap/u'e 
Unioerselle,  sup2')lement,  it  appears  that  most  of  the  works  of  Valens  were 
printed  by  Ant.  Estienne,  though  this  one  is  not  mentioned.  The  l)Ook 
contains  the  following  MS.  notes:  "E  libris  Aiitonii  IMartis  Inij.  convcntus 
Maj.  Fr.  Paris  1GG9/' and  below  this  "  Communis  bibliotheca  majoris  ac 

collegii  (word  illegible)  Parisiensis."    Presented  in  1S7G  by  the  writer. 

A  similar  copy  uilhout  any  decorations  is  in  the  Is'ational  Library,  Paris. 

Van  Praet^st  Cat.  iv.  100,  No.  127. 


TRINITY  COLLEGE. 


142.  Tasso  (Torquato)  A^aiixta,  Favola  boschereccia, 
Parigi  di  torcU  di  P.  Didot  il  magg,  1813.  Octavo.  [8.1-  x  cl- 
inches.]   65  leaves. 

Has  a  preface  by  Abbot  Serassi.  An  edition  unnoticed  by  Van  Tract, 
Brunet,  or  Graesse.  The  present  is  one  of  tlie  two  copies  finely  printed  on' 
vellum,  it  is  bound  in  brown  morocco  extra,  lined  with  red  niorocco,  the 
inside  almost  covered  with  delicate  tooling,  with  silk  linings  and  morocco 
joints,  ]jy  Spachmann  of  Paris.  From  the  Marchetti  collection,  with  illumi- 
nated book-plate.    Presented  by  the  writer  in  1877. 

143.  •  Holbein  (Hans),  Alphabet  of  Death,  illustrated 
Avith  borders  engraved  on  v;ood  with  Latin  sentences  and 
English  quatrains,  selected  by  Anatole  de  Montaiglon.  Paris. 
Firniin  Didot  Freres  for  Ediuin  Tross,  28  Piue  des  Bon  Enfants, 
1856.    Octavo.    [Sr}  x  5-]-  inches.]    18  leaves. 

Printed  in  Roman  letter,  the  figures,  ornaments  and  subjects  from  the 
I>ance  of  Death  arc  facsimiles  of  those  in  Simon  Vostre's  books  of  "  Ileurcs," 
the  finest  of  their  kind.    Presented  by  the  writer  in  1 870. 

Brunet  in.  259. 

144.  The  Lord's  Prayer.  London, 2^rivcdely  j^rinted,  1877. 
Quarto.    19  leaves,  4  of  vellum. 

Printed  in  pica  and  bourgeois  type  by  Cowper's  Parlour  printing-press, 
on  satin,  vellum,  vegetable  parchment,  and  on  paper  of  dififercnt  materials 
and  coloiu's.  Presented  by  the  writer  in  1877.  Xo  attempt  has  been  made 
to  draw  up  a  list  of  the  very  few  articles  at  Cambridge  printed  on  satin, 
but  it  may  be  allowable  to  mention  one  or  two  h.crc.  An  Almanac  for  the 
year  1769  once  belonging  to  the  Prince  bishop  of  Osnaburgh,  and  several 
prints  in  the  Fitzwilliam  Museum,  and  a  large  and  curious  cliart  of 
the  beautiful  Fishery  of  AVhittlcsea  Mere,  by  John  Bodgcr  of  Stilton,  May 
1786,  in  the  Free  Library. 

EMMANUEL  COLLEGE  LIBEARY. 

145.  Ciceronis  (Marci  Tullii)  Officia  et  Paradoxa, 
Johannes  Fust  Mogimtinus,  civis  mami  Petri  [Schoeffer),  14G5. 
Small  folio.    [10  x  GJ-  inches.]    87  leaves. 

The  imprint  is  printed  in  red,  and  runs  "  Prcsens  ]\rarci  tulii  clarissi- 
mum  opus  Johannes  fust  Moguntinus  civis  non  atramento  plumali  canna 
neque  aerea  scd  icic  quadam  perpulchra  Petri  manu  pueri  mei  fcliciter 
elfeci  finitum  Anuv  .Mcccglxv." 

There  are  four  most  exquisitely  illuminated  borders  of  din*ercnt  designs. 
Two  of  these  reprc  ent  cut  flowers  on  a  dead  gold  ground.   The  borders 


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are  placed  one  at  the  commencement  of  each  book  and  in  all  of  them 
the  Prince  of  "Wales  feathers,  the  Purtcullis,  and  the  Arms  of  England 
appear.  These  painted  decorations  are  equal  to  those  in  the  finest 
contemporary  illuminated  MSS.  The  first  Initial  contains  a  miniature 
painting  of  a  youth  and  his  tutor  Avitli  a  book  open  between  them.  This 
has  been  engraved  by  Mr  Ilartshorne,  who  strangely  omits  to  state  that 
the  book  is  printed  on  vellum  ;  both  llr  Ilartshorne  and  an  earlier  autliority 
the  Rev.  James  Dallaway  in  Ins  anecdotes  of  the  Arts  quote  this  miniature 
as  an  authentic  likeness  of  Henry  YIII.  when  young;  a  modern  :\IS.  note  in 
the  College  Catalogue  states  this  copy  to  have  belonged  to  Trince  Arthur; 
it  is  in  a  fine  state  of  preservation,  but  unfortunately  some  half  century 
ago  it  was  rebound  in  Russia  leather,  and  probably  then  all  evidence  as  to 
its  former  owners  was  removed,  for  there  is  nothing  to  show  in  ^vhat  way 
this  interesting  example  of  the  first  printed  Classic  came  to  the  College, 
but  most  probably  with  Archbishop  Sancroft's  books,  for  it  was  in  the 
possession  of  the  College  when  Bernard's  Cat.  of  MSS.  was  made  in  or  before 
1697,  and  was  shown  to  Baron  von  Uffenbach  in  1710  on  his  visit  to  the 
library.  22  other  copies  are  mentioned  by  Van  Praet,  of  which  12  are  in 
this  country,  at  the  British  Museum,  Lord  Spencer's  library,  at  Oxford  and 
elsewhere. 

Cat.  MSS.  Brit.  Hibern.  1G97  ii.  90,  No.  47,  This  copy. 
Uffenbach  (Z.  C.)  Reisen  durch  Engelland  &c.  nr.  51,  This  copy. 
Dallaway  (Jas.)  Anecdotes, 429,  This  ccypy.  Ilartshorne,  37(;,  This  copy. 
Van  Praet  1st  Cat.  ir.  p.  51,  This  copy.    Panzer,  ir.  11.3. 
Cotton  (11)  Typog.  Gazeteer,  340.  Hain,  5238. 

146.  MissALE  SAT.inr,  London,  Rich.  F)jnson  niandato  et 
irnpcnsis  Joli.  Morton  Cardinalis  Cantuarieiisis  Archiepiscopi 
1500,  Jan.  10.    Folio.    [10|  x  7J  inclies.] 

This  Salisbury  Missal  has  been  a  good  deal  cut  down  by  the  binder.  It 
has  the  imprint  "with  Pynson's  device  in  red,  it  also  has  the  leaf  with  the 
Royal  Arms  and  those  of  the  Cardinal  whereby  the  similar  and  far  less 
perfect  though  larger  and  better  preserved  copy  at  Trinity  College  was 
identified;  see  ante,  No.  133,  where  remarks  and  references  concerning  this 
edition  will  be  found.  The  copy  under  notice  is  uncolourcd,  and  has 
stamped  on  the  sides  of  the  old  calf  binding  the  Arms  of  Archbi^h<)p 
Sancroft,  who  bequeathed  it  with  the  rest  of  his  valuable  library  of  printed 
books  to  this  his  College. 

147.  PSALTEPJUM  EX  MANDATO  HeNEICI  SePTLAII  ReGIS, 

London,  per  Gullielmiim  Faquez,  7  Feb.  1504.  Octavo. 
[5|  X  3J  inches.]    166  leaves. 

This  copy  has  nt  present  16G  leaves,  the  title  and  several  other  leaves 
are  wanting,  but  I'lc  first  leaf  Avhich  contains  Faque.s'  device  of  intersecting 
triangles,  and  the  last  on  which  are  the  French  verses  given  by  Ames  as 
ending  the  volume  are  still  remaining.    The  whole  is  finely  printed  in  red 


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and  black  witli  a  cliain  border  round  each  page.  Tlio  first  Initial  B  is  a 
fine  woodcut  one  worked  off  in  red  and  black.  This  appears  to  be  the  only 
known  copy  printed  on  vellum  and  to  have  been  hitherto  unnoticed ;  so 
rare  is  it,  in  any  form,  that  only  two  other  copies  JxAli  on  paper  arc 
known  to  exist,  (1)  Mr  Grenville's  copy  at  the  British  Museum,  and  (2)  Mr 
J)once's  at  the  Bodleian,  which  like  this  has  no  title. 

Ames  (Herbert)  p.  309.  Cat.  Grenvillo  Library,  Part  ii.  37G. 

Dibdin,  Typ.  Ant.  III.  7.  Lowndes  (Bohn)  1990. 

148.  MisSALE  Sarum,  impressum  in  oj^identi  civltatc  London, 
per  Richardam  Pynson  hujus  Artis  ingemosissi'tmim  vuindato 
et  impensa  regis  Henrici  septimi,  10  Kal.  Jan.  (Doc.  23),  1304\ 
Folio.  X  9-g  inches.]    4  leaves  of  vellum. 

Tliis  missal  has  Pynson's  device.  Lord  Spencer  has  a  copy  printed 
wholly  on  vellum,  its  deficiencies  have  been  restored  in  facsimile  from  this 
copy  which  has  only  a  few  vellum  leaves  and  is  perfect.  In  the  Maskell 
Collection,  British  Museum,  is  an  imperfect  vellum  copy. 

Lowndes  (Bohn)  1576  and  Dickinson  p.  16,  This  copy. 

Ames  p.  116.  Dibdin,  Typ.  Antiq.  ir.  424. 

J)ibdin,  yEd.  Althorp.  ii.  196.  Van  Tract  2nd  Cat.  i.  p.  148. 

149.  MissALE  Saruim.  In  Parisiormn  Acadeniia  opera 
Wolfgangi  Ilopj/lii  impensis  Francisci  Byrhnan,  Feb.  1510  et 
10  Kal.  apr.  1510.  Folio.  [12J  x  8^-  inches.]  2  leaves  of  vellum. 

In  this  copy  the  last  leaf  is  wanting.  Other  copies  are  in  the  University 
Library,  No.  30  ante,  which  see  for  notes  and  references,  and  \v.  St.  John's 
College,  No.  122  ante. 

150.  MissALE  Sarum.  Londini  per  RicJiardum  Fijnson  in 
flete  sirete,  9  Kal.  Jan.  1520-.  Folio.  [15J.  x  10!,-  inclies.]  210 
leaves. 

This  copy  of  this  fine  edition  of  the  Salisbury  ]\Iissal  is  in  good  condition 
but  not  so  fine  or  large  as  the  similar  copies  in  the  Bepysian  Library 
Magdalene  College,  No.  130,  or  in  the  University  Library,  No.  40,  to  which  ^ 
refer  for  notes  and  references. 

150*-.  H0R.E  AD  USUM  Sarum.  THle  :  Enchiriilion,  pre- 
clare  ecclesie  Sarum :  denotissimis  precationibus,  ac  venustis- 
simis  imaginibus  et  ijs  quiJem  non  paucis  refertum.  [Small 
device  of°Thielman  Kerver.]  Farisijs  Ex  officina  Ubraria 
vidue  spectahiUs  viri  Thielmanni  Keriier,  1528.  Imprint  :^  Ini-^ 
pressum  est  hoc  orarium  Farisiis  in  edihns  vidue,  spectidjtlis  viri 
Thiehnanni  kcruer  in  ■  vico  diui  iacohi  ad  signuni  vnicornis, 
Expemis  qnidem  probi  viri  Alardi  p)hmier  mercoioris  fide- 


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BOOKS  PRINTED  ON  VELLUM, 


lissimi.  Anno  salutis  nostre,  millesimo  qidngentessimo  vifjesimo 
octauo.  die  .ij.  sejMmhris.    16mo.  [4-]-  x  2  J  inches.]    232  leaves. 

Tlie  Table  for  finding  Easter  runs  from  L528  to  L54G  inclusive.  The 
title  (as  above)  occupies  the  first  page ;  and  the  imprint  (as  above)  is  below 
a  woodcut  of  tlie  "Arma  rcdemptoris  mundi"  on  the  last  page  of  this  spot- 
lessly perfect  little  volume,  which  is  a  real  IGmo.  and  not  a  small  8vo.  The 
old  stamped  gold  edges  still  remain ;  but  the  original  covering  lias  been  re- 
placed by  a  calf  binding  dT  the  eighteenth  century;  by  which  process  all 
trace  of  ownership  (and  with  this  probably  the  Bancroft  book-plate)  has 
been  removed,  except  the  library  mark  1  .5 .  G5  on  the  title-page  and  <m  the 
back  of  the  book.  The  lettering  on  the  back  is  "Enchiridion  Ecclesi:x;  Sarum," 
so  that  it  is  somewhat  strange  that  it  should  have  escaped  the  notice  of 
those  who  have  been  for  so  many  years  on  the  look  out  for  treasures  of  this 
kind.  Mr  Bradshaw  came  upon  it  by  accident,  when  looking  along  the 
open  shelves  for  an  entirely  different  book,  whilst  this  last  sheet  vras  passing 
through  the  press,  and  the  writer  is  indebted  to  his  kindness  for  the  pre- 
ceding notice. 

There  appears  to  be  a  paper  copy  in  the  Maskell  Collection,  British 
Museum,  and  there  seems  to  be  one  like  this  on  vellum  in  the  Donee 
Collection,  Oxford, 

151.  k  Goodly  Primer  in  Englysshe,  newly  corrected 
and  printed  veiie  necessarie  and  profitable  for  all  them  that 
r3^ghte  assuredly  understande  not  ye  Latine  and  Greke  tongues. 
Imprinted  at  London  in  Flete  strete  hy  Jolin  Byddell  dwellyngc 
at  the  signe  of  the  Sonne  next  to  the  Cundite  for  Williahi 
J\[arshall  tlie  year  of  our  Lord  God  1535,  the  IG  day  of  June. 
Quarto.    [7J-  x  6  inches.]    1-10  leaves. 

The  title,  first  leaf  of  the  Calendar  and  several  other  leaves  are  wanting 
in  this  copy,  but  the  last  leaf  with  the  imprint  remains,  there  are  at  present 
104  leaves.  This,  one  of  the  first  editions  of  the  Primer  wholly  in  English, 
is  printed  in  large  black  letter  in  red  and  black  with  woodcut  initials.  From 
the  class  mark  this  volume  apparently  formed  a  portion  of  the  original  dona- 
tion of  Sir  Walter  Mildmay,  who  not  only  founded  the  College  but  well 
furnished  the  library  with  books.  At  the  writer's  suggestion  ^Ir  Pearson  the 
librarian  moved  it  from  the  comparative  insecurity  of  the  open  .shelves  to  the 
locked-up  case  cimtaining  the  MSS.  and  some  of  the  rarer  printed  books.  It 
is  reprinted  in  Dr  Burton's  volume  entitled  "Three  Primers  put  forth  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  YIII."  Lord  Spencer  and  Lord  Ashburnham  have  similar 
copies.  The  library  at  Emmanuel  possesses  also  copies  on  paper  of  the 
Primers  of  (1534?)  1545,  1546,  1549,  and  a  dateless  edition,  ])rintcd  by 
Byddell. 

Hartshornc  'M7,  This  copy.  Dibdin,  Typ  Ant.  iii.  389—3,^2. 

Dibdin,  Bibliog.  Decam.  ir.  3G0,     Yan  Praet  i?nd  Cat.  i.  150, 
Lowndes,  cd.  by  Bohn,  1970. 


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APPENDIX, 


BEING  A  LIST  OF  WOEKS  IN  MANUSCRIPT  AND  PKINT  EEFERRING 
TO  OR  ILLUSTRATI\^  OF  THE  BIBLIOGRAPHY  AND  PALAEO- 
GRAPHY OF  CAMBRIDGE  LIBRARIES. 

This  list  is  an  attempt  to  show  what  has  been  done  to 
extend  the  knoAvledge  of  the  contents  of  the  Libraries  of  the 
University. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  before  long,  Catalogues  of  the  very 
valuable  collection  of  fifteenth-century  printed  books  in  the 
University  Library,  so  greatly  added  to  by  the  zealous  care  and 
skill  of  the  present  librarian;  and  of  the  extensive,  but  as  yet 
too  little  knowu,  treasures  of  early  English -printed  bool^s  in  the 
same  collection,  maybe  published.  Also  that  a  Catalogue  of  the 
large  and  important  section  of  European  manuscripts  in  Trinity 
College  Library  m.ay  be  printed  to  follow  those  of  the  Oriental 
portions,  which  have  already  appeared.  This  is  required  to 
complete  the  series  of  Catalogues  of  the  manuscripts  in  the 
principal  collections  :  those  of  the  University,  the  Fitzwilliam, 
Corpus  Christi,  Caius,  Queens',  and  St  John's  having  been 
published  in  a  separate  form,  whilst  Lists  of  the  rarer  portions 
of  the  printed  books  in  the  University  Library  would  in  some 
measure  make  up  for  the  want  of  a  general  2:>rinted  Catalogue, 
which  the  limited  resources  of  the  University  exchequer  would 
seem  to  preclude  it  from  ever  attempting  to  undertake. 

The  printed  books  in  this  list  are  arranged  chrono- 
logically, but  woi  ks  by  the  same  writer  are  placed  together, 
and  so  follow  the  date  of  his  first  production. 


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MANUSCRIPTS,  British  Museum. 
In  31SS.  Baker,  forming  MSS.  Ilarleian  7o2S— 7050. 

Public  Library,  Benefactors  to   MS.  Baker  ii.  103,  xx.  350. 

Clare  Hall,  Cat.  of  library   „      ii.  163. 

Corpus  Christi,  Cat.  library,  16G0   „      vi.  25—2?. 

Pepys  (S.),  The  dispositioH-  of  his  library  „       iv.  20S. 

St  John's  Coll.,  gifts  and  bequests  to  libr.  „       xii.  204,  221,  222,  2r)n, 

XiX.  270. 

Trinity  Coll.,  notices  of  books  in   xx.  27G. 

Trinity  Hall  Library,  Cat.  of   „       ii.  40-1— S. 

Volumes  xxiv. — xlii.  of  Baker's  MSS.  arc  at  Cambridge. 

MSS.  Ilarleian. 

Libri  MSS.  Trin.   Coll.,  Cant.  (difl"ers  from 

Oxford  Cat.)   MS.  Harleian,  G94, 1S4. 

MSS.  Thos.  Gale    „  224. 

Cat.  MSS.  Coll.  Johan.  ap.  1G75  (^yanting  in 

Oxford  Cat.)   „  272. 

Addend.  Bibl.  Caiens.  1G73    „         302,  333. 

Coll.  Immanuelis  Codices  (differs  from  Oxford 
Cat.)   „  3S4. 

Coil.  Sydncicnsis  MSS.  (differs  from  Oxford 

Cat.)   „  390. 

Appendix  ad  Catalogum  bibl.  Pub.  (wanting  in 

Oxford  Cat.)   „  3I)S. 

Ai)pcndix   ad    Catalogum    Coll.  Benedicti 
(omitted  in  Oxford  Cat.)   »  402. 

Cat.  MSS.  in  Coll.  Jcsu  (fuller  than  in  Oxford 

Cat.)   „  40S. 

Coll.  Reginalis  Codices  MSS.  (wanting  in  Ox- 
ford Cat.)   „  40n. 

Libri  historici  in  Bibb  publ.  Cant   MS.  Lansdowne  910,  f.  2G. 

Concerning  books  presented  by  K.  Geo.  L  ...  „  ^^S,  f.  2; 6. 

Inventarium  Libr.  Matth.  Parker  in  Coll. 

Corp.  dir.    ]  574   MS.  Bibl.  Reg.  App.,  0'^  1 5,  \. 

(A  Catalogue  of  the  j^rinfed  books  given  by  the  Archbishop.) 

Copy  of  Visitation  of  County  of  Cambridge  in 
libr.  of  Caius   MS.  \dd.  581 2,  MS.  Colo  xv. 

Books  received  into  the  Public  Library,  Cam- 
bridge   „       CS20,MS.  Colo 

xxiii.,  f.  GS— SG. 

Memoranda  of  books  in  C.  C.  Coll.,  by  Dr 

Tanner   »       G2G1,  IT.  130-150. 

Donation    of   books   by   Abp.    Parker  to 


Meraorandp.  of  printed  books  and  IMSS.  in  the 
library  of  Dr  John  Moore,  by  Dr  Tanner...  MS.  Add.  G2Gl,ff.  o4,  55  ; 

G2G2,  If.  31,  47. 

Memoranda  of  MSS  at  Pembroke,  by  Dr 

^^^^^""er   \   62Gl,f.  IGl. 

Notes  of  MSS.  at  Emmanuel,  by  Dr  Tanner  ...       „       G2G2,  ff.  192—3, 

f.  213. 

MANUSCRIPTS,  Bodleian,  Oxford. 

Notice  of  Welsh  MSS.  at  Cambridge    MS.  Tanner,  xxii.  38. 

Listof  MSS.  in  Public  Library   lxxxviii.  105. 

Appendices  to  James'  Cat.  Pub.  Libr   „        cclxviii.  170, 

272,  209. 

MANUSCRIPTS,  Camb.  University  Library. 

Books  in  Dr  HoldsAvorth's  library    I)d.  viii.  45. 

Catalogue  of  University  Library,  including  the 

Lambeth  Collection   Mm.  iv.  2. 

Catalogue  of  MSS.  University  Library   Oo.  vii.  53,  55. 

Benefactors  to  Pubhc  Library   US.  Baker  xxxvni.  197. 

Catalogue  of  Books  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll         Gg.  iv.  8. 

MSS.  in  the  Library  of  Christ's,  1785   Mm.  v.  41,  f.  GO. 

MSS.  given  by  Whitgift  to  Trin.  Coll   Baumgartncr  Papers  vii.  30. 

Letters  in  the  Library,  Emmanuel  Coll   Baker  xxx.  413. 


PRINTED  BOOKS. 

Parker  (M).  Do  Antiquitate  Brit.  Ecclesifo.  London,  1572.  fol.  At 
the  end  are  lists  of  the  MSS.  given  to  the  Public  Library  by  the  author, 
Archbishop  Parker. 

Caius  (John).  II i storia  Cantcbr.  Academic.  London,  1574.  4to.  At  page 
85  is  a  list  of  tiie  books  then  remaining  in  the  Public  Library,  Cam- 
bridge. 

Hentzxer  (Paul).  A  journey  into  England  in  1598.  Printed  from  the 
Latin.  Strawberry  Hill,  1757.  8vo.  Mentions  the  large  ]\[S.  psalter  of 
Osorius,  Bp.  of  Cadiz,  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Essex  on  the  capture  of  the 
city,  as  being  in  theli])rary  of  King's  College;  vhereit  maybe  still  seen. 

James  (Thos.).  Ecloga  Oxonio-Cantabrigionsis,  tributa  in  duos  libros. 
London,  IGOO.  4to.  This  is  a  catalogue  of  nil  the  MSS.  in  the  Oxford 
College  libraries  and  in  the  University  ami  College  libraries  at  Cam- 
bridge. 

SoRiVERius  (Pet.).  Vanes  Erpeniani.  Lug.  Bat.  1G25.  4to.  At  the  eiul 
is  a  catalogue  of  the  Oriental  MSS.  of  T.  Erpenius.  The.^c  were  pre- 
sented by  the  Di'ohess  of  Buckingham  to  the  Uuivcraity  hi  1G32. 


J 


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APPENDIX. 


.  Bernaed  (E.)  Catalogus  libronim  MSS.  Angliceet  nibcrnice.  Oxon.  1C97. 
fol.  Tliis  is  known  as  tlie  "Oxford"  Catalogue.  As  concerns  MSS.  at 
Cambridge,  tliis  is,  so  far  as  many  Colleges  are  concerned,  a  mere  re- 
print of  James'  Catalogue,  but  it  includes  some  additions,  and  gives  tlio 
collections  of  Bp  Moore,  Dr  Gale,  and  S.  Pcpys,  which  afterwards  came 
to  the  University,  Trinity  and  ]\[agdalene  Libraries.  Vol.  J  I,  contains 
lists  of  MSS.  at  the  University  or  "Public"  Library,  I'cterhouso, 
Pembroke,  Coi-pus  Christy,  Trinity  Hall,  Caius,  Kings',  Queens',  Jesus, 
Trinity  College,  Sidney,  and  Emmanuel. 

Wanleii  (Humphredi)  Librorum  Yett.  Septentrionalium  Catalogus  qui 
in  Angli[ie  bibliothecis  extant.  Oxon.  1705.  fol.  On  page  106  begins 
Catalogus  MSS.  Anglo-Saxonicorum  qui  adservantur  in  bibliothecis 
Acad.  Cantabrigiensis.  Coll.  Corp.  Chr.,  pp.  106 — 151.  Biblioth.  public;^}, 
152—165.  Trinity  Coll.  166— 173.  Trinity  Hall,  172— 173.  The.>^e  Cata- 
logues are  very  full,  and  types  to  represent  the  Anglo-Saxon  character 
are  used.  The  volume  forms  Vol.  IL  of  Dr  Hickes'  Ling.  Septentr. 
Thesaurus  of  the  same  date  and  place. 

A  Catalogue  of  the  library  of  Wisbech,  in  the  Island  of  Ely.    1718,  Svo. 

Catalogus  Librorum  MSS.  in  Bibliotheca  Coll.  Corporis  Christi  in  Cantabrigia 
quos  legavit  Mattheus  Parkerus.    1722  fol.    Drawn  up  by  Dr  Stanley. 

MiDDLETOX  (Dr  CoNYERs).  Bibliothccre  Cantabrigiensis  ordinandio 
metliodus  qutedam.    Cantab.  1723.  4to. 

—  —  Origin  of  printing  in  England,  Camb.  1/35. 

4to.    At  the  end  is  a  list  of  books  printed  by  Caxton,  in  the  Public 

Library,  Cambridge. 
Catalogus  Libr.  Orientalium  MSS.  quibus  Academia3  bibliothecam  locu- 

plctavit  Rev.  Yir  Georgius  Lewis,  1727.  Svo. 
NicOLSON  (W.)  Historical  Libraries.  London,  1736.  fol.  The  preface  gives 

short  notices  of  the  Cambridge  libraries  and  of  the  library  of  Bp 

Moore. 

Catalogue  of  Duplicates  in  the  Royal  Library,  Cambridge,  soM  by  auction 

at  Cambridge,  March  29th  and  Dec.  1st,  1742.  .  Svo. 
OsiANDRi  (J.  A.)    Orationum  Academicarum  biga,  quorum  prior  agit  de 

raanuscripto  Codice  Cantabrigiensi  Groico-Latino  Thcodori  Bcza?, 

Tubingen,  1742.  4to. 
Long  (R.)    Astrological  MSS.  at  Pembroke  Coll.,  Philos.  Trans,  xlyiii. 

No.  43.  1751. 

Kennicott  (Benj.)  The  state  of  the  printed  Hebrew  text  of  the  Old 
Testament  considered.  Oxford,  1753-9.  Svo.  In  the  second  part  is 
an  account  of  the  various  Hebrew  MSS.  at  Cambridge. 

Uffenbacii  (Z.  C.)  Reisen  durch  Engellaud,  &c.  Ulm,  1754.  3  vols.  In 
the  3rd  vol.,  pp.  1—84,  are  notes  made  of  MSS.  seen  by  him  on  his 
visit  to  Cambridge  in  the  year  1710. 

Lelandi  Collectaiic  i,  De  rebus  Britannicis.  London,  1770.  Svo.  Tom.  in. 
(often  bound  as  Vol.  iv.),  pp.  15—21,  gives  a  list  of  some  MSS.  in  the 
following  Cambridge  libraries  at  Leland's  visit,  about  153S:— Barn- 


APPENDIX. 


GO 


well  Priory,  the  greater  and  less  Public  Library,  Aiigiistincs,  Domini- 
cans, Franciscans,  Jesus  Coll.,  Benet  Coll.,  Trinity  Coll.,  Kings'  Hall, 
Valence  Mary  (Pembroke),  Queen's  Coll.,  Clare  Coll.,  Gunvyle  Coll.,  and 
Peterhouse. 

TrsOx\  (M.)  An  account  of  an  Illuminated  MS.  in  the  library  of  C.  C. 
Coll  Camb.  1770.  4to.  With  a  plate  of  a  miniature  with  portraits 
of  Henry  V.,  &c.,  in  the  MS.  of  Bonaventura's  Life  of  Clirist,  at  Corpus 
Christi  Coll.    See  also  Archseologia,  ii.  p.  194. 

Catalogus  hbrorum  in  Bibliotheca  Aulse  divte  Catharin(3e  Cantabri^iie 
Cant.  1771.  4to.    Priv.  pr. 

Nasmith  (J.)  Catalogus  Librorum  Manuscriptorum  quos  Collcgio  Corporis 
Christi  et  B.  Maria3  Virginis  legavit  M.  Parker  Archiep.  Cant.  Cam- 
bridge, 1777.  4to. 

Catalogue  of  Mr  Capell's  Sliakspcriana,  presented  by  himself  to  Trinity 
College,  Cambridge.  Printed  from  an  exact  copy  of  his  own  MS.  1779. 
8vo.    Reprinted  by  Mr.  Hartshorne.    pp.  290 — 319. 

ASTLE  (Tiios.)  Origin  and  Progress  of  Writing.  1784,  4to.  In  the 
various  plates  facsimiles  of  the  text  of  MSS.  in  the  Public  Library,  and 
in  those  of  Corp.  Chr.,  Trinity,  and  Emmanuel  Colleges  are  given. 

Codex  Bez8ft.    Ed.  Thomas  Kipling,  DD.,  Cambridge.    1793.    2  vols.  fol. 

RiTSOX  (J.)  In  his  numerous  publications  of  ballads  and  ancient  songs, 
1783—1830,  and  Jamieson  (Rob.)  in  similar  publications,  1806,  have 
made  use  of  the  rich  stores  of  early  Enghsh  literature  in  the  MSS.  of 
University  Library. 

The  first  Report  of  the  Parliamentary  Committee  on  public  Records, 
London,  4th  Jidy,  1800,  fol.,  gives,  pp.  360—374,  lists  of  historical  MSS. 
in  the  Cambridge  libraries.  See  also  the  appendix  to  this  Report, 
London,  1S20,  i>p.  33G — 352,  for  additions. 

Montagu  (BasiL).  Enquiries  respecting  the  University  Library  of  Cam- 
bridge. Camb.  1805,  Svo.  Gives  a  list  of  the  few  books  received  in 
1803  from  the  Stationers'  Company, 

Christian  (E,)  Vindication  of  the  right  of  the  Universities  to  a  copy  of 
every  new  publication,    Camb,  1807.  Svo, 

Clarke  (E,  D.)  Greek  marbles  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  University. 
Camb.    1809,  8vo. 

Catalogus  Librorum  qui  in  Bibliotheca  Cathedralis  Eliensis  adscrvantur 
1815.  R.  Svo.  pp.  130.  See  also  Botfield's  Cathedral  Libraries,  p. 
131,  under  Ely. 

The  Classical  Journal,  London,  1818—21,  vols.  xvii.  183—8,  xviii.  92—95, 

and  251 — 3,  describes  the  classical,  biblical,  and  biblico-oricntal  MSS. 

in  the  Public  Library. 
Repertorium  bibliographicum  (W.  Clarke),  London,  1819,  Svo,  107—121, 

gives  concise  lists  of  rare  books  in  the  Pepy.sian,  University,  Benet,  St 

John's,  and  Trinity  libraries. 
DiBDiN  (T.  F.)    Li  biographical  Decameron  in.,  275,  1817,  describes  the 

Pepysian  Library ;  and  iu  his  Library  Compaiiiou,  1824,  Bibliomania, 


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APPENDIX. 


1811,  and  Introduction  to  tlio  Ckssica,  1827,  are  many  rororonccs  to 

books  tit  Cambridge. 
The  Roxburgho  Club  printed:  Six  Bookes  of  ]\Ietamorplioseos  of  Ovydc, trans- 
lated by  Wni.  Caxtou,  from  a  ^^IS.  in  the  Pepysian  Librury,  Ciiniljriuge. 

1819.    4to.    Seynt  Graal,  from  a  MS.  in  C.  C.  Coll.    l&G:]-4.  4to. 
Dyer  (G.)    Privileges  of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  18-24,  2  vols.,  Svo., 

has  short  lists  of  some  of  the  Oriental,  English,  Latin,  and  Greek  MSS. 

in  the  University  Library,  also  of  the  ^ISS.  at  Corpus  Christi  and 

Emmanuel, 

HoRNE  (T.  II.)  A  Catalogue  of  the  library  of  Queens'  College,  Cambi-idgc, 
methodically  arranged.  Camb.  1S27.  Svo.  2  vols.  This  includes 
the  small  collection  of  MSS. 

Wright  (Tiios.)  Alma  Mater,  1827,  Svo.,  has  a  woodcut  of  a  MS.  In-lul- 
gcnce  in  Ti'in.  Coll.  Library. 

Retrospective  Review,  2nd  series,  ii.  490 — 500,  1S2,  art.  by  Mr  llartHhorne, 
on  the  Cambridge  libraries.    1828.  Svo. 

HARTsnoRNE  (C.  H.)  Book  Rarities  in  the  University  of  Cambridge, 
London,  1829,  Svo.,  gives  lists  of  rare  printed  books  in  the  Public 
Libr.,  pp.  1—173;  King's,  176— 21G;  Pepysian,  217— 2G9;  Trinity, 
271—319;  St  John's,  3-23— 4G1.  Shorter  lists:  Corpus  Chr.,  245n, 
385;  Queens',  206,  149 :  Emmanuel,  375;  Pembroke,  192,  333n.  Also 
woodcuts  of  initials,  &c.,  from  the  Public  Liln-ary,  p.  173,  219,  2G9,  273, 
319,  323;  Trinity,  p.  1,  21G,  219,  273,  323;  Khig's,  177,  178;  St  Jolm's, 
p.  1,  177;  Emmanuel,  p.  375. 

—  —        Ancient  Metrical  Tales  (from  MSS.  at  Cambridge), 

London.  1829.  Svo. 
IIaexel  (Gustav)  Catalog!  Libr.  MSS.  qui  in  Bibliothecis  Gallia?, 
Helvetian,  Belgii,  Britannire,  etc.  Lipsit«,  1830.  4to.  Supplement 
with  additions  to  the  Oxford  Cat.,  comprising  shortlists  of  the  IdSS.  at 
Christ's  Coll.,  Clare  Hall,  Magdalene  Coll.,  Old  Library,  and  Trinity 
Hall. 

SiiAW  (II.)  and  Madde^^  (E.)  Illuminated  ornaments.  London,  1833.  4to. 
Two  borders  from  MSS.  in  the  Eitzwilliam  Museum  are  given. 

Mr  Hunter's  Report  on  MSS.  illustrative  of  English  History  or  Law  in  the 
Cambridge  libraries  is  printed  in  the  {ippendix  to  the  General  Report 
of  the  Committee  on  Public  Records.   London,  ]  S3  7.  fob  pp.  336—352. 

Some  account  of  the  Cambridge  libraries  is  in  the  Rep-ort  on  Public 
Libraries.  -  London,  1849.    pp.  144—153. 

Lamb  (John).  Letters,  statutes,  and  other  documents  from  the  MS.  Lil>rary 
ofC.  C.  Coll.    1500—1572.    London,  1838.  Svo. 

The  Maitland  Club  printed  Lancelot  du  Lak  from  a  MS.  in  Camb.  Uni- 
versity Library.    1839.  4to. 

The  Camden  Society  lias  printed :— Warkworth's  Chronicle,  from  a  MS.  in 
Peterhouso  LUn-ary.  1839.  4to.  Diary  of  I)r  John  Dec,  from  a^MS. 
in  Trin.  (  oil.  1842.  4to.  And  Thornton  Romances  from  MSS.  at 
Cambridge.    1844.  4to. 


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APPENDIX.  7]. 

The^Cambridge  Portfolio,  Camb.  ]8-]0,  4to,  lins  some  representations  of 
initial  letters  and  descriptions  of  :\ISS.  in  the  libraries  there 

ComiiE  (G.  E.,  D.D.)  Catalogne  of  the  Original  Library  of  St  Catharine's 
Hall.  1475.  Pubhcations  of  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Societv  ls4o 
4to. 

~         ~  An  ancient  Calendar  preserved  in  the  library  of  Jesus 

College.  Camb.  Antiquar.  Society  Communications,  Vol.  i.,  147,  1851. 
~         —  i^ist  of  books  presented  to  rcmljroke  College,  Cam- 

bridge, by  different  donors  dftring  the  14th  and  15th  centuries.  Camb. 
x\ntiq.  Soc.  Comm.,  Vol.  i.  11.  18G0. 

—  Catalogue  of  the  books  given  to  Trinity  Hall,  Cam- 

bridge, by  the  Founder.  Camb.  Ant.  Sue.  Communications,  ii  73 
1864. 

VoGEL  (E.  G.)    Litcratur  friihcrcr  und  noch  bestehender  den  curopriischcr 

offenthcher  und  corporationsbiljliotheken.  Leipzig,  1840.  Svo.  On  p. 

3Si)  &c.  is  a  list  of  woi'ks  referring  to  Cambridge. 
Hallhvell  (J.  0.)    Account  of  MSS.  once  belonging  to  Hui-ham  Cathedrnl, 

now  in  Jesus  Coll.  Library,  in  Gent's  Mag.,  Feb.,  1S40,  p.  151. 

■ —         —      Manuscript  llarities  of  the  University  of  Cambridge. 

London  and  Camb.    1841.  8vo. 

■ —  Historia  Coll.  Jesu  Cantabr.  Shcrmanni  from  ]\[S.  in 

Jesus  Coll.    Ed.  for  Camb.  Ant.  Soc.  1840. 

—  —  Catalogue  of  the  books  bequeathed  to  Corpus  Christi 
Coll.  in  1439  by  Tho.  Markaunt.    Camb.  Antiq.  Soc.  1848.  Svo. 

CowiE  (M.)  Catalogue  of  MSS.  and  scarce  books  in  St  John's  College, 
Camb.    1842—3.    4to.    Camb,  Ant.  Soc.  Pubs. 

Westwooo  (J.  0.)  Paheographica  Sacra  Pictoria,  London,  IS-! 5,  4to,  has 
facsimiles  and  descriptions  of  the  following  Cambridge  MSS.: — The 
Byriac  Pentateuch  (plate  iS'o.  G),  Codex  Bc/av  (Xo.  10),  Latin  and 
■Anglo-Saxon  Psalter  (Xo.  41),  Anglo-Saxon  C!ospel«  of  Leofric  (Xo.  45) 
in  the  University  Library;  the  Latin  Gospels  of  St  Augustine  (Xo.  11), 
St  Augustine  on  the  Trinity  (X^o.  10),  Anglo-S:'.xon  (jlospels  of  ufEHVic 
(X^o.  45)  at  Corpus  Christi;  the  Psidter  of  Edwine  (Xo.  43)  at  Trinity; 
the  Latin  Psalter  (Xo.  IS)  at  St  John's  Colleges. 

—  —  Hluminated  Hlustrations  of  the  Bible.  London.  184G. 
Svo.  The  last  plate  is  a  facsimile  from  a  xii.  Cent.  A})ocalypsc  at 
Trinity  Coll. 

—  —  Miniatures  and  ornaments  of  Anglo-S  axon  i'lSS., 
1SG8,  fob,  are  facsimiles  of  the  Book  of  Prayers  of  Bp  .Ethclwold, 
plate  24,  and  p.  43,  and  of  the  Book  of  Deer  (p,late  51),  and  descriptions 
only  of  Gospels  of  St  Luke  and  John,  p.  47,  and  Anglo-Saxon  Ps;dter 
of  Sir  X.  Ihicon,  p.  120,  in  the  University  Library;  faesimiles  of  the 
Psalter  of  St  John's  (plate  30),  do.  of  Latin  Gospels  (plate  42),  and 
description  ol"  I 'suiter  of  Edwine,  p.  14G,  in  Trin.  Coll  Dcscrip.  of 
Gospels  of  j^i)  I'thelstan,  p.  143,  in  PenJjrokc  Coll.  Descriptions  of 
Lu.tin  Gospels  of  SS.  John  and  Luke,  p.  -19,  Red  Book  of  the  Peak,  p. 


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94,  Psychomachia  of  Prudentius  p.  103,  and  the  Psalter  of  Thomas  a 

Becket,  p.  115,  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll. 
Goodwin  (J.)  Evangelia  Augustini  Gregoriana.  A  description  of  MSS.  28G 

and  197  in  Parker  Library,  C.  C.  Coll.,  with  eleven  plates,  Cambridge 

Ant.  Soc.    1847.  4to. 
Chan  WELL  (Edw.)    Index  to  English  Books  printed  before  IGOO  in  Triii. 

Coll.,  Cambridge.    1847.  Svo. 
Index  to  the  Baker  MSS.,  by  four  members  of  the  Cambridge  Antiq.  Soc. 

Camb.    1841.   Svo.    19  of  the  42  vols,  are  at  Cambridge,  the  rest  at 

British  Museum.    See  ante  under  Manuscripts. 
Smith  (J.  J.)    Catalogue  of  the  MSS.  in  Gonville  and  Caius  Coll.,  Camb. 

1849.  Svo. 

—      —      Pictorial  Illustrations  of  the  Cat.  of  MSS.,  Camb.  1853. 
4to.    With  accompanying  text  in  Svo. 
CoLLETT  (TV.  R.)    Early  printed  books  in  Gonville  and  Caius  Coll.,  Camb. 

1850.  Svo. 

The  Caxton  Society  has  printed  Walteri  Abbatis  Dervensis  Epistol?e,  from 
a  MS.  in  St  John's  College,  Cambridge.    1850.  Svo. 

Dickinson  (F.  H.)  List  of  printed  service  books  of  Anglican  u.ses.  Lend. 
1850.    Svo.    Many  volumes  at  Cambridge  are  particularized. 

The  Percy  Society  has  printed : — Six  ballads  from  MSS.  in  Corp.  Chr.  Coll., 
1844,  Svo.,  and  an  Anglo-Saxon  Passion  of  St  George,  in  the  Camb. 
Univ.  Library.    1850.  Svo. 

Cotton  (H.)  Editions  of  the  Bible  in  English,  1505—1820,  Oxford,  1S52, 
Svo.,  specifies  many  editions  in  the  Cambridge  libraries. 

Preston  (T.)  Catalogus  bibliothecce  Burckhardtiana?  cum  appendice 
librorum  aliorum  orientalium  in  bibliotheca  Academire  Cantabrigicnsis 
asservatorum.    Camb.  1853.  4to. 

AVaagen  (I)r).  Treasures  of  Art  in  Great  Britain,  iii.  444—454,  describes 
some  MSS.  &c.  at  Cambridge. 

NovELLO  (Vincent).  The  Eitzwilliam  music,  being  a  collection  of  pieces 
selected  from  MSS.  of  Italian  composers  in  the  Eitzwilliam  ]\Iuscum, 
now  for  the  first  time  published  by  permission  of  the  University  of 
Cambridge.  London,  1854.  fol.  For  some  remarks  by  Mr  Gold- 
schmidt  on  the  autograph  musical  MSS.  of  Handel,  Boyce,  Blow, 
Purcell,  and  Croft,  and  on  the  rest  of  the  musical  collection  in  the 
Museum,  see  Cambridge  Reporter  (1877),  p.  497. 

Paleario  (Aonio).  Trattato  del  Beneficio  di  Giesu  Cliristo,  Verona,  15-4.3. 
A  reprint  from  one  of  the  only  two  copies  known,  in  St  John's  Coll., 
with  an  English  tran.slation  from  an  unpublished  MS.  in  the  University 
Library,  and  a  French  translation.  Edited  by  Churchill  Babington. 
London  and  Camb.  1S55.    Small  4to. 

Catalogue  of  the  MSS.  preserved  in  the  Library  of  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge. (This  does  not  include  the  Oriental  portion.)  Cambridge, 
1856—67.    Svo.    G  vols,  including  index  by  Mr  II.  R.  Luard. 

Chronicles  of  Great  Britain,  published  under  the  direction  of  the  Mastor  of 


APPENDIX.  73 

the  Rolls.  1858.  8vo.  In  progress.  The  following  is  a  list  of  sonio 
of  the  Cambridge  MSS.  tliat  have  been  published  in  th\^  series.  A 
facsimile  of  a  page  from  each  is  given  :— La  Estoire  de  8eint  Aedward 
le  Rci,  The  Biiik  of  the  Chroniclis  of  Scotland,  Capgi-ave's  Chronicle, 
Richard  of  Cirencester,  Pecock's  Repressor  of  overmuch  blaming  the 
Clergy,  in  the  University  Library;  Historia  Monasterii  St  Augustini 
Cantuariensis,  in  Trin.  Hall  Library;  Memoriale  Fratris  Waltcri  dc 
Coventria,  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  The  descriptive  Cat.  of  MSS.  i-elating 
to  the  history  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  by  Thomas  Duffas  Ilnrdy, 
in  the  same  series,  3  vols.,  1862—1871,  contains  notices  of  many  MSs! 
in  the  Cambridge  libraries.  In  Vol.  in.  are  several  facsimiles  of  MSS. 
of  Matthew  Paris  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll.  Ed.  by  Mr  H.  R.  Luard  aiid 
others. 

SoTiiEBY  (S.  L.)    Principia  Typographica.    London,  1858.    -^to.    On  pp. 

65,  G6,  is  a  description  of  the  Biblia  Pauperum,  a  Block-book  in  the 

library  of  Corpus  Christi. 
Hardwick  (C.)  Some  account  of  a  scarce  "Lyfe  of  St  Radegunde"  (pr.  by 

R.  Pynson)  in  library  of  Jesus  Coll.  Communications  to  Camb.  Antiq. 

Soc,  I.  p.  29.  185.9.  8vo. 
Scrivener  (F.  II.)  Codex  Augiensis,  a  Gr[X3co-Latin  MS.  in  Trin.  Coll., 

Camb.,  with  facsimile.    Camb.    1859.  Svo. 

—  —  Introduction  to  the  Criticism  of  the  New  Testament. 
Camb.  1861.  8vo.  On  page  465  are  indexed  the  Greek  MSS.  in  the 
Cambridge  libraries. 

—  ~  Codex  Beza3  Cantabrigiensis,  with  notes  and  facsimiles. 
Camb.  (1863.)  8vo. 

Cooper  (0.  It.)  Memorials  of  Cambridge.  Camb.  18G0.  8vo.  In  the 
Srd  vol.  is  a  fuller  hst  of  the  benefactions  to  tlie  University  Library 
than  had. appeared  up  to  tlie  date  of  its  publication. 

Blades  (W.)  Life  and  Typography  of  William  Caxton.  London.  18G1— 3. 
4to.  2  vols.  Contains  the  "Caxtons"  in  the  Cambridge  libraries. 
Perhaps  a  copy  of  the  "Polychronicon,"  1482,  at  St  Cath.  Coll.,  a  4to. 
leaf  of  the  "  Image  of  Pity,"  in  the  University  Library,  and  the  little 
shp  at  King's  Coll.,  p.  45  ante,  are  the  only  ones  omitted.  A  new 
edition  of  Mr  Blades'  book  has  appeared  in  a  cheaper  form. 

PniLPOTT  (Henry)  Documents  relating  to  St  Catharine's  Coll.  Camb. 
1861.    8vo,    Priv,  pr. 

Bradshaw  (Henry)  On  the  Recovery  of  the  long-lost  AValdensian  ]\LSS. 
Communications  to  the  Cambridge  Antiquarian  Society,  ii.  203.  1SG2. 
8vo.  See  also  post  for  a  later  work,  by  I)r  Todd,  of  DubHn,  on  the 
Waldensian  MSS.  generally. 

—  —  Two  Lists  of  Books  in  the  University  Library,  one 
made  in  or  ante  1424,  the  other  in  1473.  Camb.  Antiq.  Soc.  Comniun., 
II.,  239.  IS'::;.  A  few  mentioned  in  the  earlier  list  are  still  on  the 
shelves  of  tlic  Library. 

—  —         Catalogue  dos  livres  do  la  Biblioth^quc  de  TUnivcrsitc 


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a  Cambridge  imprimes  sin-  \clin.  This  Catnlo^ie  appeared  on  pp.  105 
— lOS  and  123—127  of  Le  lUbliopliile.  Londres,  1SG3.  Svo. 
BiiADSiLW  (IIenuy).  The  Printer  of  tlic  Ilistoria  S.  Albani,  with  a  plioto- 
graphed  facsimile  of  ''Tractatns  de  Sneccssionibns  ab  Iiitestato," 
IVom  the  copy  of  the  work  in  the  Camb.  University  Library.  Camb. 
1868.  8yo. 

—  TheUniversity  Library  (an  account  of  its  history  find 
progress),  contributed  l)y  the  Librarian  to  the  Cambridge  University 
Gazette,  connnencing  oiv  Wednesday,  Feb.  18G9,  and  continued  for 
several  weeks.  As  this  paper  is  defunct,  copies  are  difficult  to  meet 
with.    A  reprint  of  it  would  be  valuable. 

—  —  A  Class! lied  Index  of  the  xv.  Century  Books  of  M.  J, 
De  Meyer,  sold  at  Ghent,  Nov.,  1S69.  London,  1870.  The  greater 
portion  of  these,  as  specified  in  the  book,  were  transferred  into  tlic 
Camb.  University  Library. 

—  —  On  two  hitherto  unknown  MS.  poems  by  John 
Barbour,  discovered  in  the  University  Library.  Camb.  Antiq.  Soc. 
Communications,  iii.  111.    18G6.  Svo. 

Paley  (F.  a.)  Manuscripts  at  Cambridge,  in  the  Home  and  Foreign 
Review,  Oct.,  Ls62,  p]).  471 — 500,  has  descriptions  with  long  extracts 
from  the  following  MS.  Service  books : — The  Book  of  Cerne,  Book  of 
Beer,  Codex  Bezre,  York  i\ianual,  Tewkesbury  Missal,  Ttlissal  and  Pro- 
cessional, Psalter,  Bo.,  Life  of  Edward  the  Confessor,  in  the  University 
Library  ;  Persius  xiii.  Cent.,  in  Clare  Coll.;  St  Aiigustinc's  Go.spels  and 
Irish  JilS.  of  Yii.  Cent.,  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll. ;  the  Psalter  in  St  Jolm'a 
Coll.,  and  the  Psalter  in  Trinity  Coll. 

Searle  (W.  G.)    Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  Queens'  College  in  1472. 
Camb.  Antiq.  Soc.  Connnun.,  ii.  1G5.    18G2.  8vo. 
— •  • —        Catalogue  of  the  Illuminated  MSS.  in  the  Fit/william 
Museum,  Cambridge.    1876.  Svo. 

Catalogue  of  Adversaria  and  ]3ooks  containing  ]\,[S.  notes  in  the  Cambridge 
University  Lii^rary.  Camb.  1864,  Svo.  (A  portion  of  the  Cat.  of 
MSS.) 

Mayor  (J.  E.  B.)  Letters  of  Archbishop  Williams  relating  to  St  John's 
College  Library.    Camb.  Antiq.  Soc.  Communications,  ir.  25.  1864. 

The  Early  Enghsh  Text  Society  in  1865  and  succeeding  years  has  printed 
the  following,  amongst  other  works,  from  j\[SS.  at  Cambridge : — Chaucer 
on  the  Astrolabe,  Merhn,  or  the  Early  History  of  King  Arthur,  King 
Horn,  Lancelot  of  the  Laik,  Piers  the  Plo^vnnm,  Three  Fyttes  of  Tlios, 
Ercedoune,  in  the  University  Library;  The  Holy  Grail,  Genesis  and 
Exodus,  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll.;  William  of  Palerne, or  Wilh'am  and  the 
Werwolf,  in  King's  Coll.;  The  Bruce,  King  of  Scotts,  The  Romans  of 
Partenay,  Old  Homihes,  Piers  the  Plowman,  The  IMlgrim's  Sea  Voyage, 
Generydes,  in  Trinity  Coll.  Edited  by  W.  ^Y.  Skeat,  F.  J.  Furnivall, 
II.  Morris,  and  oLiiers. 

Todd  (J.  11.)    Books  of  the  Vaudois  preserved  in  Trin.  Coll.,  Lublin,  and 


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other  libravies.  1865.  12ino.  Describes  the  Wnldcnsian  Tu'SS.  at 
Cambrirlg'j. 

Ellis  (A.  A.)    Xotes  extracted  from  the  Bentley  MSS.  in  Trin.  Coll.,  Cnm- 

brid^e.    Cauib.    1SG-.  8vo. 
Pearson  (J.  B.)    Index  to  the  I'Jiglish  books  in  library  of  Eniiniamel  printca 

before  IGOO,    Camb.    1SG9.  8vo. 
AuPRECiiT  (Th.)    Catalogue  of  Sanksrit  MSS.  iii  tlie  library  of  Trin.  Coll., 

Camb.    18Gy.    Svo.  , 
Sinker    (R.)     Testamcntum  xn.   ratriarcharnm.     Camb.  ISGD.  Svo. 

Describes  several  Greek  and  Latin  MSS.  of  the  Testamcntum  in  the 

Cambridg-c  libraries. 

—  —  Catalogue  of  the  xv.  century  printed  Ijooks  in  the  lil^rary 
of  Trinity  College.    Camb.  187G.  8vo. 

The  Book  of  Deer,  a  Scotch  or  Pictish  ]MS.  of  the  ninth  centi-.ry,  in  the  uni- 
versity Librai-y,  Camljridge.  Edited  for  the  Spalding  Club  by  John 
Stewart,  M.D.    Edinburgh,  1869.    4to.  plates. 

Skene  (W.  F.)  Coronation  Stone.  Edinburgh,  18G9.  4to.  TTas  a  photo- 
lithograph  of  the  coronation  of  Alexander  III.,  from  the  MS.  of  Eorduu 
in  the  liljrary  of  C.  C.  Coll.,  Camljridgc. 

Edleston  (J.)  Correspondence  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  from  MS.  origin;ds 
in  Trin,  Coll.,  Camb.  187-.  Svo. 

LuARD  (II.  11.)  List  of  Documents,  &c.,  in  the  Registry  of  the  University 
which  concern  the  University  Library.    Cambridge,  1870.  Svo. 

Palmer  (E.  II.)  Catalogue  of  Arabic,  Persian,  Turkish,  Hebrew,  and 
Samaritan  i\[SS.  in  h]>rary  of  Trin.  Coll.,  Camb.  1870.  8vo. 

AValton  (II.  B.)  and  IIedd  (P.  G.)  The  first  Prayer-book  of  Edward  VI. 
1870.  8vo.  Several  copies  at  Cambridge  are  mentioned,  but  the 
authors  do  not  mention  the  co])y  in  Pembroke  College. 

Royal  Commission  on  Historical  Manuscripts.  Is70,  etc.  ul.  In  pro- 
gress. The  first,  second,  third,  foui'th,  and  fifth  Reports  contain  full 
descriptions  of  and  extracts  from  documents  and  MoS.  illustrative  of 
English  histoi-y  in  Christ's,  Corpus  Chr.,  King's,  Pembroke,  Queens', 
St  Jolm'S;,  St  Peter's,  Trinity,  D()^vning,  Sidney,  Emmamiel,  St 
Catharine's,  Magdalene,  and  Pembroke  Colleges,  also  those  in  the 
Registry  of  the  University  and  belonging  to  the  Corporation  of  the  town 
of  Cambridge. 

The  Paliieographical  Society,  London,  1873,  fol,  in  progress,  has  photo- 
graphed in  Pt.  IL,  plates  14  and  15,  the  Codex  Beza;;  in  Pt.  iii.,  plates 
33  and  34,  and  in  Pt.  iv.  plate  44,  portions  of  the  Gospels  of  St 
Augustine,  in  Corpus  Christi  Coll. 

Campbell  (M.  E.  A.  G.)  Annales  de  la  Typograi)hie  Xeerlandnise  an  xv. 
sieclo.  La  Ilaye.  1874.  Svo.  In  this  C'at.  references  are  made  to  a 
large  number  of  early  printed  books  from  presses  in  the  Low  Countries, 
in  the  Univc  -ity  Library  at  Cambridge. 

Plnk  (J.)  Cat.  I'T  'iooksin  the  Free  Library,  Cambridge,  Reference  De- 
partment. 1874.  Svo.  At  tho  end  is  a  list  of  books  relating  to  the 
topography  o-  the  county. 


4 


76 


APPENDIX. 


SoHiLLER-SziNESSY  (Dr  S.  M.)  Catalogue  of  the  Hebrew  MSS.  preserved  in 
the  University  Library,  Cambridge.  Vol.  i.  Camb.  1S76.  8vo.  In 
progress. 

IIazlitt  (W.  C.)  Collections  and  Notes,  1S67-7G.  London.  1S7G.  Svo. 
(An  account  of  Early  English  Literature.)  Many  rare  works  in  the 
University,  Tepysian,  and  Emmanuel  Libraries  are  noted,  especially  in 
the  additions  at  the  end.  The  Handbook  to  the  popular,  poetical,  and 
dramatic  literature  of  Qreat  Britain,  London,  18G7,  has  also  many 
references  to  Cambridge  rarities. 

History  of  Nepaul,  translated  from  the  Purbatiya,  with  an  introductory 
sketch  by  Daniel  Wright,  M.D,  Cambridge,  1S77.  In  an  appendix  a 
list  is  given  of  the  very  ancient  Sanskrit  MSS.  procured  for  the  Uni- 
versity Library  by  Dr  Wright  in  1876. 

Taylor  (C.)  Sayings  of  the  Jewish  Fathers,  in  Hebrew  and  English,  with 
specimen  pages  of  the  Cambridge  University  jNIS.  of  the  Mishnah 
Jerushalmith  from  which  the  text  is  taken.    Cambridge,  1877.  8vo. 

Zangemeister  (Karl).  Description  of  the  Latin  MSS.  of  the  Early  Fathers 
in  the  libraries  of  the  British  Museum,  at  Oxford,  Cambridge,  &c.,  in 
the  Proceedings  of  the  Academy  of  Vienna,  Dec.  1876. 

LiGHTFOOT  (J.  B.,  D.D.)  St  Clement  of  Rome,  with  translations  of  the 
ncwly-rccovered  portions  of  the  Epistles  from  a  Syriac  MS.  in  the 
Camb.  University  Library  and  a  Greek  MS.  at' Constantinople.  London, 
1877.  Svo. 

LuPTON  (J.  H.)  Dean  Colet's  Letters  from  MSS.  in  the  C.C.C.C.,  Trinity, 
and  University  libraries.    This  work  has  been  announced. 

Waitz  (G.)  Reise  nacli  England  und  Frankreich  im  Herbst  1877. — Bell  age, 
of  t\\G  Neiies  Archio  der  GescUschaft  filr  liltcre  deatsclic  GesclikJits- 
kunde.   Vol.  iv.    Hannover,  1878.  Svo. 


INDEX  OF  VELLUM  BOOKS. 


iEgidii  (de  Columna),  De  formatione  Corporis.  (Paris,  1515.)  4to. 

NU 

-MI!  EE 

35 

Augustinus  (S.  Aurelius),  De  quaiititate  Anima).  (London,)  1575. 

Fol.  . 

103 

"             »»              De  vita  Cliristiaua,  ttc,    (London,)  1575. 

Fol. 

105 

»»             )•              Seutentia  de  Eetractatione,  etc.  London, 

1575. 

•  Fol  

lOG 

Baculi  Curatorum.    (Paris,  about  1520.)    4to  . 

41 

Billia  Latina.    (Ment;:,  not  later  than  Auf^.  14,  145G.)    Fol.  . 

1 

Mentz,  14G2.  Fol  

Byble  in  Englyshe  (Tlie).    London,  1539.  Fol. 

12  G 

Bible,  La  Sainte.    Antwerp,  15-18.  Fol  

53 

Boccaccio  (G.),  Der  Knrcz  von  etiiclien  Frowen.   Ulm,  (1473.)  Fol 

9 

Boetliius  (A.  M.  S.),  De  u'no  et  trino.    Loudon,  1575.    Fol,  . 

102 

Bonifacius,  Papa,  VIII.  Liber  Dccretalium.    Venice,  147G.  Fol. 

118 

Bread,  the  Assyze  of.    (London,  c.  1527.)  4to. 

132 

Breton  (]\[.),  La  Chine  en  miniature.    Paris,  1811.  18mo. 

88 

Breviarium  Sarisburiense.    (Paris,  1499  ?)  8vo. 

.  112 

121 

Broughton  (H.),  A  Concent  of  Scripture.  (London,  159G.)  4to, 

G3 

131 

,,       ,,          (London,)  1539   

131* 

Chrisostom  (Joh.),  in  Matthasum.  London^l575.  Fol. 

104 

Cicero  (M.  T.),  Epistolaa  familiares.    Venice,  1471.  4to. 

3 

,,              Officia  et  Paradoxa.  Mentz,  14G5.    Fol.  . 

145 

Clemens,  Papa,  V.  Constitutiones.  Venice,  147G.  Fol, 

119 

Donatus  abbreviatus,  (Printer  of  the  Dutch  Speculum).  4to.  . 

4 

Another  edition,  by  the  same  printer.  4to. 

5 

,,      Another  edition,  by  the  same  printer.  4to. 

G 

Erasmus  (D.).    See  post,  under  Testamentum  Novum. 

EHEPHSEIS,  Expositiones  in  Acta  Apostolorum,  &c.  Verona, 

1532. 

100 

F^n^lon  (Fr.),  Les  Aventures  de  Telemaque.    Paris,  1785.  4to. 

8G 

Fiordibello  (Antonio)  Ad  Philippum  et  Mariam  Keges.    Lou\ain,  1 

555. 

56 

Fisher  (Bp.),  Seven  p!:nitential  Psalms.    London,  1508.  4to. 

29 

Fry  (Edmd.)  Pantographia.    London,  1799.  8vo  

CG 

78 


INDEX  OF  VELLUM  BOOKS. 


Galeniis  (C),  Do  Pnlsibus  per  Crcuserium  et  Liuacrum.  Paris  1032 

Fol.    .   r,o 

Gallus  (Alex.),  Doctrinale,  by  the  printer  of  the  Dutch  "  Spcciihim."  4to.  7 

))                           Another  edition  by  the  same  printer.  4to.      .  8 

Gratianus,  Decretnm.    Venice,  1477.    Fol   120 

Groux  (Petr,  cles),  Oratio  de  divi  Ludovici  pra^coniis.    Paris,  1519.  4to.  .  :!'.) 

Hcrbipolonsium  Synodoriim  Acta,  &c,  (Wurtzbnrg,  1490.)  FoL  .  .  Ls 
Holbein  (Hans),  Alphabet  of  Dea|h.    Paris,  185G.    8vo,          ,       .  . 

,,         Lc  Triomphede  la  Mort  par  Hollar.  London,  179f).  8vo.  87 

Horffi  after  the  use  of  Bonrges.  Paris,  1514.   8yo   si 

Horn3  after  the  use  of  Le  ]Mans.    Paris,  (1515).    8yo   ioq 

HorfB  after  the  use  of  Paris.    Paris,  (1508).    8vo   77 

„         Paris,  1510.    8vo   7;) 

Hora3  after  the  use  of  (Home).  Paris,  1497.    8yo   135 

Hora}  after  the  use  of  Pvome.  Paris,  1503.    8vo   20 

„      Paris,  1508.    8vo.      .....  7G 

„             „      Paris,  1509.   8 vo   78 

„      Paris,  (1512).    8yo.    .       .       .       .       .  94 

„  °       '     „             „      Paris,  (1516).    8yo   82 

"       "            ,,      Paris,  1517.    8yo   83 

Paris,  1532.    8yo.      .       .       .       .       .  84 

Horro  after  the  use  of  Sarum.   (London,  1484).    8yo   15 

(AVcstminster,  1494).   4to.        .       .        2,3,  24 

„  °       "    „  „       Paris,  1498.    8yo  25,  74 

■  ,,  Paris,  about  1500.    8yo.    ...  .75 

Paris,  (1528).    8vo.   138 

„             „             „       Paris,  1528.    16mo.  .       .       .       .       .  150* 

"       ■               ■    ,,       Paris,  (1533).    8yo.   .       .       .       ,       .  85 

Hora-^  after  the  use  of  Sens.    Paris,  1512.    8vo   80 

lIora\  fragment  of.    (Paris,  1520  ?)    8vo.   72 

Indulgence,  Letters  of,    London,  1480.    Fol   110 

,,                           Another  Edition.    London,  1480.    Fol.     ,       .  Ill 

„             ,,            Audenarde,  1480.    Fol   11 

,,            Westminst(*r,  1481.    Fol   101 

Joinville  (Sieur  de).  Credo.    Paris,  1837.    4to   92 

Kno^vles  (G.  P.),  Genealogy  of  the  Coultharts,  &c.  London,  1855.  8yo.  .  G8 

Lattebury  (Jo.  de),  MoraHsationes.   (Oxford,  1482).    Fol.        ...  14 

Liber  Conformitatum,  (Earth.  Albizzi).    Milan,  1513.  Fol.     .       .       .  13G 

LiYius  (T.),  Decades  tres.    Mentz,  1518.    Fol   37 

Luciano,  II  Convito  o  I  Lapiti.    Eome,  1815.    8yo   G7 

Lydgate  (Jno.),  Historye,  sege  and  dystruccyou  of  Troye.  London, 

1513.    Fol   128 

Manuale  Sarum.    London,  150G      .       .       .       -      v.       •       •       •  ^'9 

Mariana  (Joan.),  De  rege,  ot  regis  institutione.    Toledo,  1599.    4to.        .  140 

Michel  (St.),  Livre  dcs  Statuts  de,    (Paris,  1550.)   4to   55 

Missale  Augustcufo.    Dilingeu,  1555.    Fol.   57 

,,     Bambergc";::o.  Damberg,  150G.  Fol   28 

,,     Brixiuensu.  Augsbuj'g,  1493.   Fol,     ......  22 


INDEX  OF  VELLUM  BOOKS, 


79 


Mieealo  EboracGnRG.  Ronen,  151G.  Fol. 

Frisiiigense.    Bamberg,  1-187.  FoL  . 
Herpibolense.  Wurzburg,  1181.  FoL 
Leodiense.   Paris,  1513.    FoL  . 

Paris,  1523.   FoL  . 
,,     Pataviense.    Venice,  1522.  4to, 

Eatispouciise.    Augsburg,  1515.  4to. 
Romanum,    Nuremberg,  1184.   4to  . 
Sarum.    Ptouen,  1497.  FoL 
„        „        Lonclon,  1500.    FoL  . 

London,  1504.  FoL 
Paris,  1504.    FoL  ... 
„        Paris,  1510—11.  FoL         .       .     ■  .       .       30,  1! 
M        M        London  and  Paris,  1511.  FoL 
n         ,y        London,  1512.    FoL  . 
Paris,  1514.  FoL 
Pvouen,  1519.  FoL 
,,        London,  Pynson,  1520.    FoL       ...  40, 
Paris,  1520.  FoL 
AnWerj),  1527.    FoL  . 
„        „        Paris,  1529.    FoL        .       .       .       .       .       .  10. 

•    „        „        Paris,  1532.  FoL 
n        „        Paris,  1534.  FoL 

Paris,  n,  d.  Fol  

Paris,  1555.    Fol  58, 

,,     Tornaccnse.  Antwerp,  1540.  FoL 
Trajectcnse.  Leyden,  1514.  FoL 
Xanctonenso.  Paris,- 1491.  Fol. 
Ovidius  Naso  (P.),  Opera,    Venice,  1533 — 4.  8vo. 
Parker  (Mattbow),  Do  Antiq.  Britan.  Ecclesitc.   London,  1572,  Fol. 

,,  ,  Catalogus  CanccUariorum.    London,  1572.  FoL 

Pentatonch,  Ilobrevr.    Bologna,  1482.  Fol. 

,,  Sabionetta,  1557.  12mo. 

Plinio  (C),  Historia  Naturale.    Venice,  147G.  Fol. 
Policy,  Tbe  Body  ol    London,  1521.  4to. 
Prayer,  The  Lord's.    London,  1877.  4to. 
Prayers,  Form  of,  used  by  K.  "William  III.    London,  1704 
Prymer  in  Englyssbe.    London,  1535.  4to. 
Psalterium  latiunm.    Mcntz,  1457.  Fol. 

„  „  (Cologne,  about  1480.)  . 

GS  mandato  Henrici  VII.  Regis.    Londou,  1504 
Senecqne,  Les  CEuvres,  trans,  par  Laurens  do  Premier  I'ait.  Paris, 

Fol  

Siddur,  or  Hebrew  Prayer-book.    Bologna,  1537.  12mo. 

„  Mantua,  1557.  8vo. 

Statutes  of  King'?  (.'olloge.    Cambridge,  (1802.)  4to. 
Sturmius  (Jo.),  I'e  i'eriodis  Libertinus.    Strasbm'g,  1550.  Bvo. 
Tasso  (Torquato),  Aiuinta.    Paris,  1813.  8vo. 


8fi. 


98, 


on 

17 
73 
31 
45 
44 
34 
10 
108 
140 
148 
27 
149 
113 
114 
33 
137 
150 
40 
97 
117 
47 
50 
127 
109 
52 
32 
19 
48 
01 
02 
13 
59 
10 
42 
144 
04 
151 
2 
12 
147 

134 
51 
00 
107 
139 
142 


80 


INDEX  OF  VELLUM  BOOKS. 


Testamentum  (Novum),  ab  Erasmo  recognitum.    Basle,  1510.    Fol.  .  115 

„             „             „             „            Basle,  1527.    Fol.  .  l'2t 

,,                   Annotationes  Erasmi  in.    Basle,  1527.    Fol.  .  125 

Tonstalli  (Cutlib.),  i)e  arte  supputaudi.    London,  1522.     4to.       ,  43,  IIG 

Valens  (Petr.),  de  Natali  dominico.    (Paris,  about  1G20, )  4to.       .  .  Ill 

Yerardi  (Car.)  Historia  BoGtica.    Kome,  1493.    4to.         ....  20 

(MarcelL),  Fernandus  Servatus.    (Rome,  1493.)    4to.       .  .  21 

Walpole  (Horace),  II  Castello  di  Otrauto,   London,  1795.    8yo.      .  .  G5 


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01''  EMMANUEL  COLLEGE,  CAMBRIDGE,    HEAD  BIASTEll  OF  TUE  GRAMMAU  SCIIOr>L 
AND  INCUMBENT  OF  ST  GEORGe's,   GREAT  YARMOUTH. 


"  (Omnis  sptritu.'i  luubft  Dominuin." 

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PRINTED  mil  THE  CAMEllIDGE .  ANTIQUARIAN  SOCILTN 

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AND  MACMILLAN  AND  CO. 
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ESS  I 


SECOND  EDITION. 


CAMBKIDOE  ANTIQUAEIAN  SOCIETY'S  OCTAVO  PUBLICATION 


NO.  XVIII. 


R  E  F  A  C  E. 


My  "forewords"  are  only  words  uf  thanks.  (1)  for  the  use  oi" 
wood-cuts  and  electrotypes,  to  the  Rev.  H.  T.  Ellaconibo,  onr 
patriarch,  Messrs  J.  R.  Daniel  Tyssen,  North,  Llewellynn  Jev/itt, 
and  Clowes,  and  the  finn  of  Moore,  Hohnes  and  Mackenzie; 
(2)  to  L.  B.  Clarence,  formerly  of  Trin.  Coll.,  and  now  a  Judg-e 
in  the  Supreme  Court  at  Colombo,  and  to  fellows-labourers  ol' 
his,  unknown  to  me,  for  their  work  in  past  d;vys  iri  Cambridge- 
shire towers;  (3)  to  the  following  junior  members  of  tlie  Uni- 
versity, V/.  H.  St  John  Hope  and  M.  C.  Potter,  of  Peterhouse; 
W.  C.  Pearson,  of  Clare;  W.  H.  Brown,  of  Caius;  R.  W.  K. 
Edwards,  of  Jesus;  C.  R.  Edwards,  of  Sidney,  for  tlie  like  lab(.>ui-s 
in  later  times;  (4)  to  the  Rev.  Dr  Luard,  the  Rev.  T.  ^l.  N. 
Owen,  the  Rev.  ELuodi  Pioot,  the  Rev.  T.  Archer  Turner,  tho 
Rev.  W.  C.  Lukis,  the  Rev.  K.  H.  Smith,  Mr  J.  H.  Sperling. 
Mr  Amherst  D.  Tyssen,  Mr  W.  Aldis  Wright,  and  many  otiier 
clergymen  and  Iciymen  for  valuable  help  of  various  kinds; 
(5)  to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Ely  for  leave  to  examine  tiio 
Sacrists'  Rolls,  and  to  the  Master  and  Fellows  of  Downing 
College  for  access  to  Bowtelfs  MS. 

Chafnant  House,  Tiikfiuw,  Nouth  "NVaij^s, 
■20  Aupust,  1881. 


CONTENTS. 


Introductory  remarks  and  early  liistory      ......  i  [ 

Casting  at  Ely  under  Alan  do  AValsingliam   4—10 

"  Longobards,"  &c.  kj  is 

"  Black  letter"  bells   18  51 

Sancc-bells  .       .       .       •  52  

Extinct  bells      .   .55—59 

MedifGval  usages   50— 01 

Elizabethan  and  Jacobean  founders  and  bells   Gl— 75 

Fabian  Stedman  and  tlie  rise  of  Change-ringing       ....  70 — 8-1 

Jacobean  and  later  founders  and  bells   81 — 105 

Chime-barrels  and  Chimes   105,  lOG 

Occasional  Peals  and  eminent  Eingers   107 — 113 

The  " Redenhall"  Clapper         .       .       ...       .       .       .  11:^,11-1 

Conclusion   115 

Inscriptions  on  the  bells,  arranged  alphabetically,  according  to 

parishes   117 — ]80 

Appendix  A.    On  the  words  Campa>ta  and  Nola         ....  181 

Appendix  B.    Texts  on  Cambridgeshire  Bells   183 

Appendix  C.    Bcll-Customs  in  Soham   184 

Addenda,  Corrigenda,  (^c.  .........  185,  InC, 

Index   1^^7— 1'.I2 


THE 


CHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIEE. 


It  is  little  more  than  thirty  years  since  the  attention  of 
antiquaries  was  first  directed  to  the  history  of  our  Churcli  iklls, 
and  to  the  evidences  of  that  history  recorded  on  the  bells  them- 
selves. At  that  time  not  a  stamp,  initial  cross,  or  otlier  sign 
had  been  investigated.  Tlie  names  of  a  few  ancient  founders 
had  been  preserved,  but  tliey  were  seldom  connected  with  exist- 
ing bells.  The  work  had  to  be  taken  up  from  the  very  outset. 
And  it  is  not  easy  work,  involving  long  journeys  on  foot  to  re- 
mote places,  the  ascent  of  crazy  ladders,  the  deciphering  of 
inscriptions  of  all  degrees  of  dltHculty  in  tliemselves  by  a  light 
generally  defective,  the  reader  in  peril  of  rotten  planks,  anointed 
with  grease  from  the  gudgeons  and  powdered  with  fine  dust  from 
decomposing  jackdaws'  nests.  But  the  very  discomforts,  hard- 
ships and  dangers  of  the  work  proved  its  strong  attraction  ;  once 
taken  up,  a  man  could  not  drop  it.  My  own  investigations  were 
early  connected  with  Cambridgeshire,  and  I  continued  them 
with  a  possibly  excessive  zeal  in  my  College  days.  Others  took 
up  the  labour  where  my  powers  failed,  and  by  degrees  the 
County  was  so  far  complete  that  the  inscriptions  appeared  in 
instalments  in  the  East  Anglian,  published  by  the  late  Mr 
Tymms,  of  Lowestoft.  The  collection  of  these  contributions,  with 
a  dissertation  prefixed,  formed  a  little  volume  entitled  Tlio 
Church  Bells  of  Camhridrfeshire,  which  saw  the  light  in  May, 
1869. 

Now  the  last  eleven  or  twelve  years  have  added  so  largely  to 
our  resources  tuat  the  readers  of  the  first  edition  of  this  book 


9 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBHIDGESHIRE. 


will  expect  to  find  it  somewhat  modified  in  its  second  issue  at 
this  present  time,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Cambridge  Anti- 
quarian Society. 

It  does  not  fall  within  the  scope  of  my  subject  to  investigate 
very  particularly  the  early  history  of  bells,  and  their  introduction 
into  the  Christian  Church."  This  species  of  "  musical  furniture" 
may  have  been  in  use  in  England  before  the  coming  of  Augu.stine, 
in  596 ;  but  it  is  not  likely  that  the  bells  of  so  remote  a  peri'^l 
were  cast  in  a  mould. 

Such  specimens  as  may  have  existed  in  the  district  at  a  time 
previous  to  the  entrance  of  the  craft  of  the  bull-founder  into 
England  seem  to  have  been  thus  made  : — Two  shovel-like  sheets 
of  iron,  with  the  edges  well  turned  up  and  made  to  lap  one  over 
the  other,  were  united  with  copper  rivets  and  dii)ped  into 
molten  copper,  so  as  to  form  a  wedge-like  figure  about  nine 
inches  high.  In  the  longer  diameter  of  tlie  crown  are  two  holes 
through  which  a  stout  iron  wdre  passed,  forming  outside  a  kind 
of  handle  or  cannon,  and  terminating  wdthin  in  two  hooks  to 
hang  the  tongue  upon\ 

In  the  collection  of  the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  there  is  a  bell 
called  Barre  Garreagh,  probably  one  of  the  earliest  attempts  at 
casting.  It  is  somewhat  smaller  tlian  its  more  ancient  sisters  in 
the  same  collection,  but  their  shape  is  scrupulously  followed. 
The  metal  is  latten,  or  something  of  the  kind  ;  but  tlie  bell  was 
never  good  for  anything,  from  the  number  of  flaws  in  the 
casting. 

And  such,  probably,  if  any,  w^cre  the  contemporaneous  bells 
of  Cambridge ;  nor  is  it  possible  now  to  trace  the  various  grada- 
tions from  these  cymbals  of  early  use  to  those  wliich  loudly 
sounded  on  solemn  days  during  the  Saxon  period.  That  peals 
of  bells,  more  or  less  in  tune,  were  at  this  time  tolerabl}-  abun- 
dant in  England  is  rendered  more  than  probable,  as  well  by  the 
size  of  the  bell-chamber  in  the  Saxon  towers  of  Northampton- 
shire, as  by  direct  testimony.  The  words,  for  instance,  in  which 
Ingulphus  desrribes  the  Crowland  peal  of  seven  :  "  nec  crat  tunc 

'  A  bell  about  four  inches  liigb,  inacle  somewhat  after  this  fashion,  of  very 
uncertam  date,  Avas  dug  up  at  CroAvlaud  some  years  ago,  and  is  now  in  the  V"^s- 
Bessiou  of  the  Ilev.  ,villiam  Bates,  vicar  of  tlie  pniish. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESUI JIK. 


tanta  consonantia  campanarum  in  tota  Aiiglia,"  scorn  to  indicate 
the  existence  of  many  peals  in  England.  Whatever  may  be  tlie 
date  of  the  tower  of  St  Benedict,  Cambridge,  it  is  evidently 
meant  to  contain  a  peal  of  bells,  and  was  the  mgtlier-cliurch  of 
the  town  in  that  respect,  as  we  shall  see.  When  we  conie  t()  the 
Norman  period  we  find' several  other  instances  of  this  adaptation 
of  towers  to  ])eals  of  bells — as  Do\vnham-in-the-Isle,  Babraham, 
Diixford  St  Peter,  Ickleton,  and,  above  all,  the  western  tower  of 
Ely  Cathedral.  To  these  may  perhaps  be  added  the  ruined 
tower  of  Swaffham  St  Cyriac.  Round  towers  are  of  course 
ill-suited  for  bell-frames  ;  but  I  believe  that  the  county  of 
Cambridge  now  contains  only  two  round  towers,  Bartlow  and 
Snail  well.  The  tower  of  Westley  Waterless,  which  was  round, 
has  disappeared. 

The  Crowhmd  peal  above  mentioned,  which  boomed  over  the 
fens  of  the  north  part  of  the  Isle  of  Ely,  was  destroyed  by  the 
great  fire  at  that  abbey  in  1091.  Ingulphus  himself  had  a 
narrow  escape  from  the  streams  of  molten  metal — tlie  remains 
of  the  late  Fega,  Bega,  Tattuin,  TarheUjl,  BetteUn,  Bartholomew 
and  GutJdac.  The  monks  of  Crowdand  (according  to  Peter  de 
Blois)  visited  Cambridge  in  1110,  but  it  does  not  appear  that 
they  gave  any  inipetus  to  the  mystery  of  bell-founding.  Perhaps 
the  lapse  of  sometldng  more  than  a  century  had  dissipated  the 
love  of  bells  fostered  by  old  Abbot'  Egelric,  the  founder  of  the 
first  peal,  for  the  Crowland  Abbey  was  served,  till  the  end  of  the 
14th  century,  by  two  small  bells  duo  Skilleta;")  which  were 
o-iven  by  one  Fergus,  a  brazier  of  Boston \ 

In  1112  arose  Pain  Peverell's  Priory  at  Barnwell,  which 
appears  to  have  possessed  a  fine  tower,  though  we  hear  nothing 
of  its  bells.  In  fact,  there  is  very  little  to  be  gleaned  concerning 
the  bells  of  this  county  for  three  centuries  after  the  Norman 
Conquest.  We  have,  in  this  county,  to  the  best  of  my  know- 
ledge, but  few  bells  which  may  be  even  conjecturally  referred  to 
the  12th  or  13th  centuries.  I  may  mention  the  2nd  at  Kennett 
and  the  first  ar  All  Saints'  Cambridge,  as  bells  without  any 
inscription,  the  elongated  shape  of  which  indicates  considerable 


^  Inyulpl.  IS,  as  quoted  in  the  Hitilonj  of  Lincolnshire,  i.  'il-'!- 

1-2 


4 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIKE. 


antiquity.  Witli  these,  perLaps,  may  be  joined  tlie  orI  at  Ehu, 
and  the  2nd  of  the  old  hve  formerly  at  Kin^^'s  Collef^e,  a  i^ood 
bell,  weighing  15  cwt.  2  qrs.  19  lbs.,  which  came  into  their  hands 
by  exchange  in  1598\  Had  these  bells  been  tlie  handiwork  of 
ecclesiastical  founders,  we  should  have  expected  some  invocation 
or  dedication-hexameter  u'joon  them,  I  suppose  tliem  to  liave 
been  made  by  some  itinerant  practitioner  of  the  ciaft  of  bell- 
casting,  but  this  is  mere  supposition.  We  must  be  content  to 
emerge  gradually  fmm  the  slough  of  hypothesis  and  conjecture 
to  the  terra  firma  of  fact. 

In  1273,  wo.  hear  of  the  bell  of  the  church  of  St  Benedict, 
Cambridge,  and  its  use  in  convening  clerks  t<_>  extraordinary 
lectures.  We  ouoht  not,  I  think,  to  infer  from  this  that  the 
church  possessed  but  one  bell.  Probably  Bene't  possessed  a 
peal  of  four  or  five,  and  the  tenor  was  the  best  bell  in  the  town. 
Be  this  as  it  may,  there  was  a  quarrel  between  Alan  the  Rector 
and  the  Chancellor,  as  to  the  right  of  the  University  to  the 
use  of  the  bell.  Hugh  de  Balsham,  Bishop  of  Ely,  was  called  in 
to  arbitrate  between  the  parties,  and  a  composition  was  effecied, 
by  which  the  bell  was  suffered  "to  be  rung  in  a  civil  and  honest 
manner,"  with  the  condition,  however,  that  the  clerk  of  the 
church  should  be  satishiKl  for  such  ringing  in  the  usual  niannor'. 

By  what  means,  or  in  what  way,  the  University  remove;!  its 
bell-patronage  from  the  church  of  St  Bene't  to  that  of  St  :Mary- 
the-Great,  it  does  not  now  appear;  but  it  is  clear  that  the 
arrano-ement  at  the  former  church  did  not  last  two  centuries.  In 
the  Proctor's  book  for  1-157  there  is  an  item,  ''pro  corda'  et  lO 
Baldrick'  pro  magna  campana  in  Ecclesia  S.  Marie."  "By  tins, ' 
says  Bowtell,  "it  seemetli  the  University  had  the  use  of  the  old 
church"." 

We  now  turn  to  Ely  in  the  days  of  Alan  do  Walsingham, 
who  was  Sacrist  in  the  year  1322,  when  the  scpiare  tower  which 
formed  the  centre  of  the  cathedral  fell  down.  It  appears  that  m 
this  year  tliere  were  two  bells  in  the  western  tower,  for  the 

1  Cavil).  Anf.  S.u-.  Co)init.  VoL  iv.  pt.  in.  1H71». 

-  Cooper's  Amml.s  of  CamhrUhjc^  i.  5-L  '  bclI-rop.\ 

A  strap  for  C  stcninf,'  the  toiif^nie  to  tlio  staple  .^f  the  bell. 
:\rS.  VT.  20'.)(, 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBUlDGESlIIPvK. 


Sacrist's  roll  contains  a  charge  for  tlie  clapper  of  the  great  ]3ell 
called  Bounce^  and  of  anotlier  called  Peter.  A  little  more  than 
twenty  years  after  this  we  find  great  works  in  bell-casting  going 
on  in  the  cathedral,  under  the  superintendence  of  Akin  de 
Walsinghani,  now  Prior,  and  llobarte  xVylesh'"ni,  Sacrist.  It  is 
instructive  to  note  the'  exact  time  of  tliese  works.  A  orcat 
struggle  at  Ely  liad  ended  disastrously  for  the  band  of  those 
noble  East  Anglian  monks,  to  whose  genius  and  energy  we  owe 
so  mighty  an  architectural  debt.  Alan  de  Walsingham,  tlie 
great  representative  man  of  this  body,  had  been  unanimously 
chosen  bishop  by  the  convent,  but  Pope  Clement  YI.  refused  to 
confirm  the  appointment,  and  nominated  the  unpopular  and 
tyrannical  Thomas  de  I'lsle  in  Walsingham's  place.  The  vast 
influence  in  wealth  and  position  which  the  Bishopric  wM)uld  have 
conferred  was  gone,  but  the  Prior  and  Convent  pressed  on  with 
their  work,  and  the  roll  of  Pobarte  Aylesh'm,  Sacrist,  Annis  XIX, 
and  XX.  Ed^vardi  III.,  bears  witness  to  their  perseverance.  Tlie 
account  for  the  bells  is  the  last  in  the  roll,  and  is  noted  in  the 
margin  Cusf  inagn  campan'  de  nov^  Suci''  cu  me  jam  exj^ens' ni. 
Though  beautifully  written,  the  roll  is  not  easy  to  read,  from 
the  faded  ink  and  discoloured  parchment.  I  liave  enclosed  the 
parts  which  are  more  or  less  doubtful  in  brackets.  It  runs  as 
follows : — 

In  argill.  enp.  ax)'d  Lenn.  ij.s.  i]d.  In  exp'ns  mag'ri  Jolian.  de  ('lous- 
cestr'  eunt'  v'sus  Lenn  [v.  ,s.]  In  aquag'  eiusdeni  p  a(f  m  v\s  J^ly,  xt/.  In 
argill.  emp.  ap'"d  Erythe  cu  aqiiag'  v's  Ely  p.  \.  p'diet  ....  [jx.s-.  X(/.] 
[In  rodis]  emp.  p.  foriiac.  faci'd.  p.  vie.  ^xd.  Lib.  Cok  v'sus  Lenn  p.  ij 
vie.  p.  copro  et  stagn'  [e'llig'']  yij.s\  VyI.  In  exp's  pVlieti  niagri  Joliis  p 
ips.  queren'd  ap'd  North'mton  et  alilji  p  d'vrs  vie'  Ju  pakkeyerdc 

  vie.  x]d.    In  dcccxtjv  libr.  stagn'  emp.  ])..  «lict'  eanipan'  vj//. 

xix.s'.  p.  eejit'  x\'.s\  min'  m^"  iiij,s\  ob  .st'm.  In  ccxx  libr'  stag'  emp.  p. 
eisd'ni  xxxj.s\  \\]\d.  p.  ccnten.  xiiij.s.  In  [-vv'^j  copr.  eni]).  p.  diet' eampau' 
x]U.  \s.  p'  cent,  xv.?.  In  dcxxi  libr.  copr.  emp.  p.  eisdcD!  v'vji.  vj.s'.  viij'7. 
X).  cent,  xiiij.s.  In  ccccxu  lib'  eopr'  emp.  p.  eisd'm  ij//.  x\  ij.v.  \]d.  }>.  c. 
xiiij.?.    In  v'LXV  lil^r'  copr'  alb'  emp.  p.  eisd'm  p.  cent,  xvj.s-. 

vnde  anaiug'  ex  ihjndere  jx  libr   In  [c  rv'] '  emp.  die  [qua]  fund'tV 

1  Mr  Francis  Nit^hols,  in  the  Gentleman's  2Iai]azlui' ,  1S('12,  p.  00,  ^ivos 
an  extract  irom  a  A[S.  of  tlie  time  of  Edward  IE  containing  a  list  of  places  \n 
England,  and  the  ,  .liugs  for  wliieli  they  were  famous.  Anioiig  thcui  is  Cerc('y!<,; 
<h'  Khj.    Sec  Kasi  liuilian,  i.  '20. 


(3 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


metair  magiie  cauipane  p't'r  stanr'  iiij.*^.  \\]d.  In  fibrin'  p  iiij  canip'ns 
faci''  et  fusioiie  iiij  cainp'm  de  [ore]  p'dict'  poiidere  hoc.  videlt.  cauip'm 

X  X 

voc't'm  Ilic  ]\rMMDCC  iiij  xij  libr.  canip'm  voc't'm  loh.  mmdcc  iiij  libr. 
cainp'm  voc't'm  ]\Iariam  mmc  iiij  libr.  xviij^/.  xviij^.  p  qualib't  lil*.  ol),  min. 

m'"  iij.s'   [In]    p.  fusion'  iiij'"  camp,  voc'te  Walsyngii'm  pon- 

derant'  -sddelt.  vjmcciiij  libr  '....In  pol.  p.  [pendic' diet' camp'J  et  tren- 

del.i  p_  gjj^^p       pojidere  et  al.  rel)s.  g'nibs  p()nder°nt  cccLXV  libr. 

xv.<?.  ij'7.    In    faciend.  p.  fornac,  et  moLs  fac''  in  p''-  ijs-.  m'yL  In 

carbon'  emp.  p.  fusione  ear'd'm  vij.s\  \ny.l.    In    et  ai["  \'.s  J'lly  u'js. 

In    emp,  p.  eisd'm  iiij.s.    In  faci'nd'  ferrament'  p.  vj  canipan'   

  campanil  de  ferro  dd.  de  st"  Epi'  emp.  xxxiij.s-.  i'lyJ.    In  \  j. 

claperys  de  novo  fact'  ex  fro  dd.  de  st°    epi'  cu.    d'm  cu  vij 

li'n'bs  p.  iiij  Sept.  injli.  xv6'.  iijd  scil'  p.  (pia'Hbt  lib.  lib.  ex  igne,  v,v. 

[In  exp's  Eog'ri  carpent']  p'dict'  vj  campan'  pendent'  lx.:>'.  i[)'e  cTme'  cu 

Garc'  et  equo    In  vj  cord'  emp.  p.  [camp',  p'dict]  xvj.s-.  viij^/.  ])at' 

Garcoi'bs  p'dct'r  Mag'r'  Joli'is  eb  Eog'i  in  recessu  eor'  jx.s.  \-jc/.    In  c  lib 

[ferri]   In  stapel.  et  haspis  de  eod'm  faci''  iij.s-.  vjc7.    In  ij  cor'  equiu' 

emp.  p.  bauderrike.s  und  fact'    In  lacci'  eor'd'm  xJ.    Jn  HI.  emp. 

iuyl  In  [soles]  emp.  p.  diet,  bauderykk  iiijci.  In  di.  cent,  redis  emp.  a[) 
Thorneye  p.  focali  ijs.    In  aquag'  eord'm  vs.  Ely,  ij*-.- 

And  the  roll  ends  with  tlie  words 
S'm  o'm  exp'ns  et  lib.  nov.  oper.' 

To  Rome  of  niy  readers  a  translation  of  tliis  account  will  be 
acceptable.    That  which  follows  must  be  taken  at  its  wortli  :— 

£    .s.  c1. 

For  clay  bought  at  Lynn  '-^  '-^ 

For  the  expenses  of  Master  John  of  Gloucester  going  to 

Lymi  •"> 
For  the  water-carriage  of  the  same  by  water  to  Ely  10 
For  clay  bought  at  Erith,  with  the  water-carriage  to  Ely 

at  the  same  time 

For  rods  bought  once  for  making  the  furnace  l'> 
The  account  of  Cok  to  Lyim  twice,  for  collecting  cojiper 

and  tin  ' 
For  the  expenses  of  the  afji'csaid  Master  John  for  seeking 

the  same  at  Northampton  and  elsewhere  on  se\'cral  occasions  3 

^  Of.  Gest  IIi!^t'>'-i<iTe  of  the  Deatnictioii  of  Troij,  u.  -153, 

"Hi)  ( Ic'ca's)  Ene  as  a  treudull  turned  full  rounde 
flhst  (jii  liiv  faler,  for  feare  that  she  hadrlo, 
And  sethyn  on  that  semely  with  a  sad  wille." 
-  For  the  conosi   udinfj;  Exeter  items  see  Ellaeombe,  CJniirh  Hrlls  of  Dri  ni,. 
dr.;  p.  547. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRTDGESHTRK. 


For  packthread  [boiiglit  on  several]  occasions 
For  8  c^Yt.  44  H^s.  of  tin  bought  for  the  said  bells,  at  155. 
per  cwt.  [with  a  deduction  of  4-9.  on  account  of  what  was  had 

from  the  store] 

For  2  cwt.  20  lbs.  of  tin  bought  for  the  same,  at  14.9.  per  cwt. 
For  15  cwt.  of  copper  bought  for  the  said  bells,  at  15.s.  per  cwt. 
For  6  cwt.  21  lbs.  of  copper  bought  for  the  same,  at  14.9. 
per  cwt. 

For  4  cwt.  12  lbs.  of  copper  bouglit  for  the  same,  at  14.v. 
per  cwt. 

For  5  cwt.  65  lbs.  of  white  copper  bo\ight  for  the  same,  at 
165.  per  cwt.,  wlience  there  is  a  tret  of  9  lbs.  from  the  weiglit 

For  beer  bought  on  the  day  on  which  the  metal  of  the 
great  bell  is  melted,  beside  what  was  had  from  the  store 

For  moulds  for  making  four  bells,  and  the  casting  of  four 
bells  from  the  aforesaid  ore,  of  the  following  weight,  that  is  to 
say : — 

The  bell  called  JESUS,  37  cwt.  52  lbs. 
The  bell  called  John,      27  cwt.   4  lbs. 
The  bell  called  Mary,     21  cwt.   4  lbs. 
For  [a  mould]  for  the  casting  of  the  4tli  bell,  called  ^Val- 

syngham,  weighing  [18  cwt.  4  lbs.]   

For  poles  for  the  hanging  of  tlie  said  bells,  and  wheels  for 

the  same  according  to  weight,  and  divers  other  things   

weighing  3  cwt.  05  lbs. 

For  making    for  the  furnace,  and  making  moulds  in 

part 

For  charcoal  bought  for  the  casting  of  the  same 

For   and  water-carriage  to  Ely 

For   bought  for  the  same 

For  making  ironwork  for  the  six  l^ells  [lianging  in  the  great] 
belfry,  of  iron,,  half  bought  from  the  bisln^p's  store 

For  six  clappers  new  made  from  iron,  half  from  the  [>aid] 
Bishop's  store,  with   

For  the  expenses  of  seven  men  for  four  weeks 

For  the  expenses  of  Eoger  the  carpenter  hanging  the  afore- 
said six  bells 

[Clement  himself]  with  his  boy  and  horse  

For  six  cords  bought  for  the  aforesaid  bells 

Given  to  tli.'  bijys  of  the  aforesaid  ^Masters  John  and  Roger, 
at  their  depart n-  r 

For  1  cwt.  of  iron   

For  making  ,^  a}>les  and  hasps  from  it 

For  two  horse  Liides  bought  for  making  bildricks  thereof  


1] 


s.  d. 
11 


in 

31  8 


6  7 

17  6 
8 

4  6 


18  18 


2  3 
7  8 
3 

4 

33  3 

4  16  3 
60 

If)  8 

S)  6 

3  (; 


8 


THE  CHURCH  EELLS  OE  CAMBRIDGESHlUi:, 


vov  making  the  same  10 
For  thread  bouglit 

For  soles  bought  fur  the  said  baldricks  4 
For  half  a  liiiiidred  reeds  bought  at  Thorney  for  fuel  2 
For  water-carriage  of  the  saii^e  to  El\'  "2 


It  might  have  been  hoped  that  through  this  record  of  opera- 
tions we  should  have  been  able  to  arrive  at  the  proportion  of 
metals  adopted  by  Master  John  of  Gloucester  in  bell-casting. 
Unfortunately,  there  are  no  data  through  which  this  may  be 
obtained,  for  it  is  evident  that  there  must  have  been  a  consider- 
able store  [staimwi]  of  metal,  which  does  not  enter  into  the 
Sacrist's  account.  The  amount  of  copper — 25  cwt.  33  lbs.,  of 
tin — 10  cwt.  C4  lbs.,  of  white  copper — 5  cwt.  65  lbs.,  gives  a 
total  of  2  tons  1  cwt.  50  lbs.,  which  falls  short  of  half  the 
registered  weight  of  the  four  bells,  Mary,  Jolni,  Jesa,  and 
Walsijngliam,  viz.,  5  tons  8  cwt.  C4  lbs.  Perhaps  the  metal  of 
Bounce  and  Peter  may  have  formed  part  of  the  sUuiriDu.. 

It  appears  strange  that  copper  and  tin  should  have  been 
weighed  on  a  different  system  :  yet,  whereas  the  iteuis  for  copper 
will  be  found  correct  at  112  lbs.  the  cwt.,  the  items  inr  tin  seem 
to  indicate  a  rate  of  80  lbs.  to  the  cwt.  for  that  metal.  The 
'"white  copper,"  possibly  pewter  collected  from  place  to  place, 
appears  to  have  been  reckoned  at  121  [112  +  9  anaiug]  lbs.  to 
the  cwt.  It  is  instructive  to  compare  witli  these  prices  of  metals 
those  recorded  in  the  Exeter  Cathedral  Cornpotus  of  3  372,  SJr/. 
per  lb.  for  copper  and  2d.  per  lb.  for  tin.  Thus  though  copper 
had  nearly  doubled  its  price  in  the  interval  of  25  years,  tin  had 
remained  about  stationary.  At  Exeter  the  tin  appears  to  have 
been  reckoned  at  100  lbs.  to  the  cwt. 

"Staples"  are  for  hanging  the  tongue  upon  :  "hasps" 
probably  belonged  to  the  tackling  of  the  bell  itself  The  inv- 
cess  of  boring  the  crown  of  a  bell  from  the  inside  for  the  insei  - 
tion  of  the  staple  is  represented  in  the  first  scene  in  tlie  '"Bell 
Window"  in  >  .wk  minster. 

I  have  interpreted  tlie  weights  of  the  bells  called  Jesu  and 
Wah-ijn(/Ji((ni  ir-  tho  best  of  my  power;  but  the  notation  may 
ha\'e  deceived  )  iC.     In  the  case  oftlie  former,  1  take  every  /  in 


THK  CHURCH  liELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESJUHJ:.  0 

tlie  row  of  four  wliicli  is  surmounted  by  x  at  the  be-imiiu--  niirl 
end  of  it  to  indicate  10,  and  tlius  I  obtain  tlie"'  weight  of 
37  cwt.  52  lbs.  In  the  case  of  the  hitter  I  suppose  VJ^'to  be 
phaced  before  M  by  way  of  subtraction,  and  the  I'osult  (18  cwt. 
4  lbs.)  renders  it  probable  that  this  is  riglit,  fur  the  four  bells 
seem  to  be  arranged  in  tlie  account  in  descending  order  of 
magnitude. 

Perhaps  at  some  future  time  the  investigation  of  the  castiiKr 
of  the  bells  Bounce  and  Peter  may  throw  some  light  on  these 
items.  The  Ely  rolls  deserve  the  attention  of  a  ripe  antiquary. 
I  earnestly  hope  that  the  publication  of  this  account,  which 
throws  so  much  light  upon  the  unassisted  labours  of  those  gallant 
East  Anglian  monks,  may  lead  to  a  thorougli  examination  of  all 
the  rolls.  And  here,  with  feelings  of  the  greatest  respect,  !  take 
my  leave  of  Alan  de  Walsyngham  and  Robarte  Aylesham. 

The  evidence  of  the  suspension  of  these  four  bells  in  Alan 
de  Walsyngham's  Lantern  will  be  best  told  in  Bishop  Goodwin's 
own  words  : 

"  While  I  was  .Dean  of  Ely  I  made  it  a  practice  to  print 
and  publish  from  time  to  time  an  account  of  what  was  being- 
done  in  the  Cathedral.  Such  notices  liave  permanent  value 
as  records  ;  fre([uently,  in  tlie  absence  of  notes  made  at  the 
time,  it  is  very  difficult  to  trace  the  exact  history  of  what 
has  been  done  in  a  build ino-.  Moreover,  curious  facts  turn 
up  from  time  to  time  which,  unless  recorded  by  some  one 
who  takes  an  interest  in  the  building,  are  likely  to  be  forgotten 
again. 

"Let  me  give  an  instance.  It  was  a  question  when  I  first 
went  to  El}^,  and  when  the  restoration  of  Alan  de  Walsingham's 
Lantern  was  undertaken  as  a  memorial  to  Dean  Peacock, 
how  the  bells  in  the  Lantern  were  rung  :  in  fact  some 
bold  sceptics  questioned  whether  there  ever  were  any  bells, 
notwitlistanding  distinct  documentar}^  evidence  of  their  ex- 
istence. One  day,  while  the  work  of  restoration  was  going  on, 
a  carpenter  tolo  me  that  he  had  found  the  marks  of  the  ropes  : 
and  he  shewed  me,  upon  one  of  the  vertical  beams  forming 
the  south  side  of  the  Lantern,  three  paraHel  grooves,  which 
had  evidently  b*  ~:\\  worn  by  ropes.     My  remark  was.  '  It  thes.' 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


be  the  mark  of  bell-ropes  there  ouglit  to  be  four,  as  I  know 
that  there  were  four  bells.'  A  little  examination  soon  brought 
to  light  the  fourth  rope-mark.  I  then  directed  the  carpenter  to 
remove  some  of  the  wooden  groining  below,  in  order  that  we 
might  see  where  the  rope-marjis  pointed ;  he  did  so,  and  we  found 
that  they  pointed  to  the  base  of  the  eastern  column  of  tlic 
arch  of  the  south  transept.  Here  therefore  stood  the  brother 
whose  business  it  was  to  chime  the  bells :  from  the  position 
occupied  by  him  the  ropes  would  clear  the  stalls  which  then 
extended  under  the  lantern;  and,  to  complete  the  story,  I  f(.)und 
in  the  discovery  the  explanation  of  two  marks  in  the  pillar 
near  which  the  chimer  stood.  I  had  never  been  able  to  guess 
what  they  were,  but  I  now  found  that  tliey  were  the  marks 
of  the  pegs  upon  which  the  ends  of  the  ropes  were  twisted 
when  not  used  for  chiming.  Thus  the  problem  of  ringing  the 
bells  in  Ely  Lantern  was  completely  solved  \" 

An  industrious  topographer  of  the  last  century  has  the 
f(jllowing  note  on  the  Lantern.  The  bells,  referred  to  are 
Penn's  little  peal,  cast  in  1723. 

"The  Lantliorn  built  by  B.  Ilotham,  wherein  the  Labour 
of  20  Years,  and  5000?.  expended,  is  a  master-piece  of  Archi- 
tecture ;  wlien  the  bells  rini>',  the  wood-work  shakes  and 
gapes,  which  is  mo  defect  but  the  perfection  of  Arcliitecture, 
and  exactly  falleth.  into  the  joints  again^." 

As  a  Gloucester  man  has  been  the  first  to  come  before  us  as 
a  founder  working  in  the  county,  it  does  not  seem  courteous  to 
dismiss  him  witliout  a  reference  to  his  locality.  The  Roman 
station  Glevuni,  on  the  Severn,  could  hardly  fail  to  have  been  the 
market  for  iron  ware  produced  at  the  great  works  established  by 
that  people  in  the  forest  of  Dean,  and  from  tlie  days  of  Edward 
the  Confessor  to  the  present  time  there  lias  never  ceased  the 
glow  of  the  furnace  on  the  same  spot.  JoJur  of  Gloucei^tev,  named 
in  tlie  Ely  rolls,  aj^pears  to  have  been  a  succeii-sor  of  Samh'e 
(Alexander)  of  (Gloucester,  whose  seal  (fig.  1),  assigned  to  the  end 
of  the  loth  '•t  uiury,  is  here  given  hy  the  kindness  of  the 

'  Bp.  Harvey  (!(  .  (hvin  in  Ess<i>/s  on  Cdthcdnils  (Mumiy,  1872),  p.  '21,  note. 
-  Burton's  Adini  ihic  Cnrio^ities  {llol),  p.  22. 


THE  CHURCH   BELLS  OF  CAMLIUDGESHIUE. 


11 


Committee  of  the  British  Archaeological  Institute,  wlio  al- 
lowed an  electrotype  to  be  taken  from 
their  woodcut.  A  detailed  account  of 
the  seal  may  be  read  in  their  Journal, 
No.  49  :  but  here  it  will  Ipe  enough  for 
us  to  note  tlie  star,  which  we  shall 
frequently  find  in  foundry  stamps,  the 
bell,  and  the  other  main  product  of  the 
Gloucester  foundry,  the  ewer  or  laver- 
pot,  in  this  instance  standing  on  three 
feet.  In  the  article  to  which  reference 
has  just  been  made  a  pot  has  been  en- 
graved bearing  the  inscription  +  yenez  LAYER,  and  no  doubt 
the  middle  of  the  latter  word  is  the  AYE  which  appears  on 
the  seal  of  Sandre  de  Gloucetre. 

The  specimen,  represented  liere  (fig.  2),  which  is  of  brass,  is 

Fi^.  2. 

o  I  B  S  4)  S  G 


I 


in  the  possession  of  Mr  Robinson,  Manager  of  the  (AunberJand 
Union  Bank,  Maryport.  It  was  fouiid  at  Al]oid)y  in  lS7(i, 
near  the  sea,    ix  feet  deep  in  the  sand.    When  andhci-  souk- 


12 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIPvK. 


what  similar  one  was  being  scoured  witli  hot  water  after  its 
discovery,  an  aromatic  smell  came  from  it,  as  thoiigli  the  lees 
of  some  spiced  liquor  had  remained  in  it  during  its  long  burial. 
We  shall  soon  find  other  traces  of  the  union  of  the  trades  of 
"  bellezetter"  and  potter. 

When  we  come  to  the  examination  of  inscribed  bells,  it 
is  only  with  the  greatest  caution  that  dates  can  be  assigned  even 
by  way  of  comparison.  To  what  cause  the  absence  of  dates 
on  our  mediasval  bells  is  due  is  a  great  mystery;  but  tlie  fact 
remains.  There  is  not  a  dated  Ante-Reformation  bell  in  the 
county,  wdiich  runs  very  short  in  mediaeval  specimens.  The  Isle 
of  Ely  is  swept  all  but  clear  of  them,  and  in  the  rest  of  the 
county  they  are  under  the  Sussex  average,  which  is  ten  percent. 
Out  of  seven  hundred  and  ten  bells,  there  are  but  fifty-five  to 
which  can  be  assigned  a  date  earlier  than  the  middle  of  the  six- 
teenth century,  and  of  that  nearly  half  (twenty-six)  are  in  the 
two  Deaneries  of  Bourne  and  Fordham,  the  forjner  of  which 
contains  fourteen  out  of  seventy-nine,  and  the  latter,  twelve  out 
of  seventy-two.  Perhaps,  of  all  the  inscribed  bells,  tlie  most 
ancient  is  the  ord  at  Stetchworth,  which  bears  only  the  words 

oms  siis  (omnis  spiritus)  lauijct  iJum  oius  sus  laulict  tinm 

(Ps.  cl.  G,  A^dg.).  Tliere  is  not  a  single  stop,  stamp,  or  initial 
cross,  from  which  to  draw  any  conclusion  as  to  the  date  of  this 
bell,  or  its  relation  to  other  bells  in  the  district.  The  rudeness 
of  the  lettering  seems  to  suggest  an  early  date  ;  but  this  is 
not  a  stire  criterion. 

In  the  group  of  some  ten  bells  inscribed  in  the  uncial 
mediaeval  lettering,  commonly  called  Longobardic,  there  is 
one  to  Avhicli  we  may  assign  a  date  ranging  from  looO  to  loOO 
or  thereabouts.  This  is  the  2nd  at  Conington,  inscribed, 
ASSVMPTA  EST  MARIA  IN  CELA^AE  GAY]M':NT  ANCH<:LI  LAVJ)ANTES 
BNEDICVNT  {sic)  DOMINVM.  The  letteiing  on  this  bell  is  iden- 
tified by  Mr  L'Estrange  with  that  placed  by  one  WHelinus  dc 
Norwyco  on  several  bells  in  the  count}^  of  Norfolk,  and  in 
particular  on  ciio  at  Hellesdon,  cast-  before  1384 ^  Now  it 
has  been  discr-W'red  by  the  same  unwearied  investigator,  that 

'  L'j  4raiifj;c's  Church  Jlrlh  of  Xvrfolk,  pp.  Id,  2-3. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  C AMBRIDGKSil IRE. 


in  1376  Willlaiit  Bnisiere  de  Notijngliaiii  vras  adiiiitted  to  the 
freedom  of  the  city,  of  Norwich.  It  seems  only  natural  that 
this  man,  after  exercising  his  craft  some  few  years  in  Norwich, 
should  call  himself  by  the  name  of  his  ado]jted  home.  He 
is  therefore,  probably,  the  Wiieliniis  de  Xunri/co  foinid  at 
Hellesdon.  From  the  position  of  Conington,  whicli  is  e(ini- 
distant  from  Nottingham  and  Norwich,  we  may  conjecture 
this  bell  to  have  been  cast  durino-  the  founder's  miu'ration  from 
the  former  place  to  the  latter. 

Tlie  following  Nottinghamshire  bells  deserve  more  complete 
investigation  with  reference  to  the  history  of  this  founder: — 
Kirklington,  treble  ;  Edingley,  treble  ;  RoUeston,  ord. 

Four  bells,  Madingley  treble,  with  a  curions  iuscriiition, 

DICOR    EGO    THOMAS    LAYS  EST  XPl 

SONYS  0MAS\.  Toft,  2nd,  Caldecot, 
3rd,  and  Cherry  Ilinton,  2nd,  bear- 
ino-  the  salutation  aye  MARIA,  in 
Lonfxobardic   letterincr    are   all  of 
one  origin.    The  last  had  another 
inscription,  of  which  a  few  letters — 
MAGN — only  a]-e  now  legible.  They 
all  bear  the  initial  cross  (lig.  3),  and 
tlie  last  two  a  Ixoyal  head  (tig.  4), 
generally  thought   to   be   that  of 
Edward  IIT.,  the  place  of  which  in 
the  Toft   bell   is   taken  by  three 
roundlets  in  a  vertical  line  (fig.  5). 
With  these  .may  bo  compared  the 
2nd  at  Calthorpe,  Leicestershire"^ 
simply  inscribed  Johannes,  the  1st 
and  2nd  at  Slapton,  Northampton- 
shire, inscribed  respectively  vltima 
su(m)  trina  campana  Y0(V^R  kte- 

1  My  luune  is  Thomas,  and  T.  can 

Sound  forth  the  \mum  of  Christ,  0  man." 

Xote><  and  Qucric-^.  LsC,  L 

-  North's  Cini:  h  Hells  of  [ .ric,'st,'rx]iin\  p]).  sr..  HU). 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMHinDGFSlIIRE. 


RINA  (sic)  and  XPE  :  AVDI  :  NOs\  and  tlio  4th  at  Stowc-ninc- 

Chiircliei;  in  the  same  county,  in-  ' 
scribed  AVE  MARIA  oraclv  plena^ 
which  Last  bears  not  only  tlic  ''Ed- 
ward III."  head,  but  that  of  a  Queen 
(%.  G)  by  hypotliesis  Pliilippa.  Now 
%.  3  at  Madingley,  Toft  and  Shipton 
appears  identical  with  that  used  by 
Johannes  Aleijn  at  Southease,  Sussex, 
whom  Mr  A.  D.  Tyssen  connects 
with  Walterus  Wiinhis,  by  cross  and 
letteriug'^  while  the  little  Priest's 
bell  at  Slapton  is  by  J\i chard  de 
Wanihis\  apparently  identical  with 
Kichard  de  Wymbissh,  pi.tter  nml 
citizen  of  L(jndon,  whoso  j-ecogni- 
zance  for  casting  a  bell  of  2820 
pounds  ''every  hundred-weight  there- 
of containing  112  pounds"  for  the 
w>;r-irm,rmmx«immmmm£^  Priory  of  thc  Church  of  the  Holy 
Trinity  in  Aldgate  was  cancelled 
after  delivery  of  the  bell,  in  1;U2'. 

This  rather  sleuder  chain  of  evidence  appears  to  draw  us  to- 
wards a  series  of  Metropolitan  founders  beginning  as  early  as  the 
reign  of  Edward  II.,  and  using  the  head  of  the  great  and  popular 
Edward  III.  and  his  Queen  for  many  years  after  their  death". 

We  have  now  to  enter  upon  the  history  of  one  of  the  bells 
formerly  belonging  to  Kings  College,  on  which  great  light 
has  been  thrown  by  Mr  J.  W.  Clark,  in  No.  xxi.  of  the  Com- 
munications of  this  Society.  A  reference  to  the  engraving 
here  inserted  from  Mr  Clark's  paper,  copied  from  a  careful 
sketch  of  the  inscriptions  on  four  of  these  five  bells',  will  shew 

^  North's  C]inrcJ>  Bells  of  Northamiyto)i>^hln',  j^p.  (i.j,  (iO,  o'J8. 

2  Ihid.  pp.  55,  409.  3  ciiurch  Ilrlh  of  Sussi'.r,  p.  G. 

•*  North's  Chu)\}!  llclh  of  Nortliaviptonnhirt' ,  p.  3118. 

Riley's  JSLeiiion.'U  of  London  and  London  Life,  p.  100. 
^  This  Royal  liu;'d  actually  a])pcarB  on  a  bell  at  Pullickl,  Dorbyshiro,  cast  by 
George  Hedderly  of  Notthigham  hi  1780.    See  lirliij luiri/,  xvi.  IF!. 
7  In  the  Munirut  i  Room,  Kinf^'s  ColIe.L,'.'. 


i 


ampaua. 

J . 

H  V  a  1  m  K  1  X  g  !«:  s  -R  ^  Q  1  H    1    P  n     B.  ir 

#  fei-  Atria  ©antato  Ekudesfuas  Do^ne  Mud.Gus  geUraGp  Momen  luum  Sanctum. 


-  J  (f)HMtatf  f  aaaBiat  lecfiampaualpala 


f  Ravcnj  Bdls  of  Cam2ndffts?aj-e- 

\  ■  ■ 


I 

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THE  CIIURCII  BELLS  OF  CAMliPJDGESHlRE.  15 

to  tlie  grovii)  of  which 
Fi-  7. 


that  the  3rd  of  these  bells  belongs 
we  are  treating,  indeed  that  the  in- 
scription  (with  all 


its  detail)  only 
differs  slightly  in  arrangement  from 
that  at  Stowe- nine-Churches,  the 
initial  cross  (%.  7)  bein^  in  all  pro- 
bability the  same  in  both  cases.  In 
this  conclusion  I  am  sustained  by  Mr 
Ellacombe,  and  accordingly  venture  to 
give,  side  by  side,  the  restored  inscri])- 
tion  on  the  3rd  at  King's  and  that 
on  the  4th  at  Stowe-nine-Churches. 
Old  3rd  at  Kinir's  :— 

[  +7]  AVE  [  □  4]  MATUA  [  □  G]  GRACIA  [  □  4]  FJ.KXA 
4th  at  Stowe-nine-Churclies  : — 

[  +  7]  AYE  [  □  4]  MARIA  GRACIA  [  □  G]  PLENA  [  C  4"). 
Unfortunately  we  have  no  clue  as  to  wliere  this  bell  canu^ 
from.    We  learn  from  the  Mundum  book  that  it  came  to  Kind's 

o 

by  exchange  in  1598  : — 

"  Item  solut  Mi"o.  Nicholson  pro  exchanging  the  second 
and.  third  belles,  and  WSli.  of  over  waight  of  niettell  ad 
6d.  le  pownd  xvij^/.  x.s-.  viii^/." 

It  must  have  been  a  grand  bell,  weighing  21  cwt.  \  (p'.  '2  lbs., 
with  a  diameter  of  4  ft.  2  in.,  and  measuring  oft.  from  shoidder 
to  skirt,  but  described  by  ]\Ir  Betham,  >Scnior  Bursar  (;f  the 
Fig.  8. 


Fijr.  9. 


College  as  "still  Inwer  (than  the  treble  and  2inl)  as  to  tin,  and 
not  so  well  cas  :  better  metal  than  the  other  t^v(•  (the  4(h 
and  5th) \" 

^  C<niii   Antiq.  Snr.  Comt)i.  Vol.  iv.  part  ui.  IST'J. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Fi-  11. 


There  is  some  connection  between  tliis  group  and  the  orcl 
and  4th  bells  at  Chippenham,  with  initial  cross  (fig.  8)  and  stop 
(fig.  9).  The  former  bears  the  Salutation,  the  latter  SANCTA-mar- 
GARETA  •  ORA  •  PRO  •  NOBIS,  followed  by  the  name  derby.  Tliat 
■T^^g-  10.  this  is  the  founder's  surname  is  evident 

from  the  bell  at  New  Houghton,  Norfolk, 
inscribed  +  sancte  •  petre  •  ora  •  pro  • 
NOBIS  •  derby  .  fecit  •  ISTA  •,  with  the 
same  initial  cross  and  stop.  There  are 
three  heads  on  the  Chippenham  4tli  (fig. 
10),  supposed  to  be  Edward  L,  which  are 
found  at  D^a-bam,  Gloucestershire,  with 
the  initial  cross  (fig.  7)  as  at  Stowc-nine- 
Churches,  and  presumably  on  the  3rd  formerly  at  King's'. 

The  marks  of  this  founder,  perhaps  a  resident  in  Derby, 
passed  into  the  hands  of  Henry  Oldfield  of 
Nottingham,  about  the  close  of  tlie  15th 
century^  He  is  known  in  other  counties. 
The  Great  Shelford  2nd,  novv-  recast,  also 
bore  the  heads  of  a  king  and  queen,  with- 
out inscription.  From  my  pen-and-ink 
sketcli  of  the  latter  I  think  it  nuist  have 
been  the  annexed  (fig.  11),  wdiich  is  sup- 
posed to  represent  Eleanor  of  Castile. 

One  bell  from  the  mediaeval  founders 
at  L}nn,  the  Avork  of  Tltomas  de  Lenne,  the  tenor  of  West 
Wratting,  was  recast  in  1860.  An  account  of  this  foundry  may 
be  found  in  L'Estrange's  Church  Bells  of  Norfolk.  From  him 
we  learn  of  a  Thomas  Bclleyeter  in  that  town  in  1333,  and 
of  another  or  others  in  1418  and  14401 

Bowtell'^,  in  his  account  of  the  old  peal  at  St  Mary's-the- 
Great,  Cambridge,  has  preserved  an  inscription  on  a  bell,  the 
4th,  cast  by  a  founder  whose  works  are  well  known  in  Leicester- 
shire—Johannes  yorke  me  fecit  IN  honore:m  beate  marie. 
His  initial  ciT'Nses  (figs.  12,  13),  stops  (figs.  14,  15),  and  an  angel 

1  EllaconiliL'  s  I  'lmrcJi  Bell.'<  of  Devon,  p.  33. 
-  North's  diKi-ch  Belh  of  Leicestershire,  pp.  82,  83,  H4. 
L'Estranf.'e's  Church  Ihlh  of  Norfolk,  pp.  22,  23.       ^  x\IS.  v].  22;jG,  &c. 


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17 


found  on  the  2nd  at  Wanlip,  Leicestershire  (fig.  16),  are  here 
given  as  connected  with  a  "  past  Cantab."  Mr  North  assigns 
John  of  Yorke  to  the  latter  part  of  the  fourteenth  century,  and 


Fig.  12.  Fig.  13. 


considers  that  he  may  have  learned  his  art  from  Richard  Tunnoc, 
bailiff  of  tlie  city  in  1320—1,  and  representative  of  York  in 
Parliament  in  ■  :V27,  by  whom,  or  in  memory  of  whom,  the 
celebrated  Be] binder's  window  in  the  Minster  was  set  up'. 

1  North's  ChurcJ-  JleUs  of  Leicestershire,  pp.  77,  ;  of  Novilutmptomhire, 
pp.  50,  Arc. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


As  instances  of  lettering  I  give  a  letter  from  eacli  of  the 
types  of  the  Cherry  Hinton  2nd  (figs.  17,  18). 

Fig.  17.  Fig.  18. 


"With  this  we  end  the  iDscriptions  in  capitals,  witli  a  few 
necessary  exceptions,  and  proceed  to  a  larger  number  in  ordinary 
''black  letter,"  and  fortunately  find  a  connecting  link  between 
the  two  classes.  This  is  a  very  pretty  quartett,  the  Impington 
2nd,  the  Wood  Ditton  3rd,  and  the  tenors  at  Croxton  and 
Eltisley.  All  have  the  shield  (fig.  19),  bearing  in  chief  three 
mullets  inverted,  and  below  a  chevron  a  crescent  inverted. 
I  cannot  speak  fully  as  to  the  detail  of  the  Croxton  and  Eltisley 


Fig.  19.  Fig.  20. 


bells,  but  the  other  two  bear  likewise  a  fleur-de-lis  surmounted 
by  a  crown  (fig.  20),  which  occurs  as  a  stop  on  a  bell  at  Fair- 
light,  Sussex,  inscribed  SIT  nomen  DOMINI  benedictvm'.  This 
inscription  is  on  three  of  the  four  mentioned,  the  exception 
being  the  I'npingto.n  2nd,  which  has  the  legend  >^  ^nuctn 
Batcn'na  COva  ^VO  iSobl'S,  and  the  Apocalyptic  Emblems  of 


1  Tyssen's  BelJs  of  Sussex,  p.  10, 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  19 

the  Evangelists  in  the  following  order :— the  Bull  of  S.  Luke, 
the  Angel  of  S.  Matthew,  the  Eagle  of  S.  John,  and  the  Lion  of 
S.  Mark  (figs.  21,  22,  23,  24).    These  figures,  as  well  from  their 


Fig.  22. 


rarity  as  from  their  subject,  are  peculiarly  full  of  interest.  I  am 
referred  to  Saxmundham,  Suffolk,  and  to  Norton,  Hertfordshire, 
for  similar  specimens,  but  I  have  been  unable  to  visit  those 
places.  At  Mumby,  Lincolnshire,  are  two  good  bells  from  the 
same  foundry,  of  which  Mr  North  will  doubtless  treat,  all  v/ell, 
in  his  forthcoi^nng  Church  Bells  of  LincolnsJnre.  I  cannot  help 
thinking  that  the  shield  on  the  6th  at  Heytesbury.  engraved 
in  Mr  Luliis's  book,  is  identical  with  our  fig.  19,  and  I  would 
suggest  that  t^e.  moon  and  stars  denote  workman.sliip  in  silver 


20  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIEE. 


and  other  metals.  There  is  a  resemblance  between  this  shield 
and  the  seal  of  Sir  William  de  Edryngham\ 

We  now  reach  a  group  which  we  may  certainly  connect  with 
the  metropolis.    And  here  the  tenor  at  Newton  first  claims  our 

Fig.  25. 


attention.    The  initial  cross  (fig.  25)  is  similar  in  form  to  those 

Fig.  26. 


(fig.  26)  on  many  bells,  e.g.y  the  treble  and  second  at  Ilketshall 
S.  Margaret,  Siiliolk,  and  the  second  at  Ninfield,  Sussex,  whicli 


Ilutchins's  Dorset,  p.  249,  3rd  edition. 


THE  CHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  21 

are  stamped  with  tlie  shield :  a  chevron  hetween  three  ewers 


Fig.  27. 


(fig.  27).  This  is  a  mark  often  used  by  one  William  ffoundor, 
whose  trade-name  may  be  seen  on  fig.  28,  and  whose  handiworks 

Fig.  29. 


are  to  be  found  in  almost  every  part  of  England.  The  shield 
(fig.  29),  bc;:y'".g  the  arms  of  Underbill,  is  often  found  ^Yith  the 
laver-pots,  a; id  in  one  instance,  at  Soutliehnliam  S.  Peter's, 
Suffolk,  with  the  mark  which  contains  William  ffonndor's  name. 
This  would  appear  to  Mr  EUacombe  and  Mr  North  satisfactory 


22 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


proof  that  William's  surname  was  Underliill\  The  accom- 
panying A  (fig.  SO)  is  a  good  specimen  of  William  ffoundor's 
capitals.    Through  Mr  Daniel-Tyssen's  Church  Bells  of  Sussex, 


Pig.  30. 


we  are  able  to  connect  William  ffoundor  with  another  group 
of  bells.  AVe  cannot  say  tliat  they  were  made  by  him,  but 
there  is  a  link  connecting  his  foundry  with  that  from  whicli  the 
bells  in  question  come.    That  bell  is  the  first  bell  at  Clayton,  in 


Fig.  31.  Fig.  32. 


Sussex,  which  bears  the  shields  (figs.  31,  82),  and  an  octagonal 
medallion  with  six  fleur-de-lis  (fig.  83).  Now  this  medallion 
has  been  found  by  me  at  Pebmarsh,  in  Essex,  in  conjunction 
with  William    foundor's  initial  cross  as  given  from  Newton. 


^  Ellacombe,  CJnirch  Bells  of  Somerset,  p.  137;  North,  Church  Belh  of 
Northam2)to)is]iire,  ]  57. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBIHDGESHIKE.  23 


Fig.  33. 


Some  facts  witli  regard  to  lettering  {Church  Bells  of  Sussex, 
p.  14)  lead  to  the  same  conclusion. 

With  the  Newton  tenor  we  thus  connect  the  4th  bell  at 
West  Wickham,  the  4th  at  Guilden  Morden  ;  the  three  bells  at 
Bartlow;  and  the  four  at  S.  Botolph,  Cambridge;  and,  among 
extinct  bells,  the  late  4th  at  Mildenhall,  Suffolk  ;  a  bell  formerly 


Fig.  35. 


standing  lu  the  north  aisle  of  S.  James's  Church,  Bury  S.  Ed- 
mund's ;  and  the  late  treble  at  Chardstock,  Dorset.  That  there 
is  some  conr oction  between  William  ffoundor  and  the  maker  of 


24 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIllE. 


these  bells  ought  to  be  evideat,  but  that  they  were  not  made  by 
hitn  would  seem  probable  from  the  absence  of  his  better-known 
stamps  (figs.  26,  27,  32,  83).  The  following  stamps,  shields,  &c., 
are  found  on  the  Cambridgeshire  bells  above  mentioned.  On 
the  Guilden  Morden  4th  the  marks  are  in  this  order,  33,  34,  35. 

On  the  West  Wickham  4th  are  the  medallion  (fig.  3G),  and 
the  arms  of  France  and  England  quarterly,  crowned  (fig.  35). 

On  each  of  the  bells  at  Bartlow  are  the  octagonal  medallion 
(fig.  36),  the  shield  with  the  monogram  containing  a  T  (fig.  32), 


and  the  shield  bearing  the  dolphin,  sheaf,  bell  and  ewer,  be- 
tween cross-keys  (fig.  31). 

On  the  treble  at  S.  Botolph  are  a  stop  (fig.  34),  found  also 
at  West  Wickham,  and  a  plain  cross  Roy6  in  an  octagon,  not 
ens^raved. 

The  second  places  the  royal  arms  between  the  stop  and  the 
cross ;  the  third  and  fourth  omit  the  cross.  The  treble  bears 
initials,  probably  those  of  the  founder,  which  Blomefieid  con- 
siders to  be  3j.  ID. ;  but  Mr  Lukis  writes  them  tlT.  To  me 
they  seemed  be  ^j.  iB,  The  peals  at  Bartlow  and  S.  Botolph  are 
both  in  excellent  tune.  The  latter  bells  are  said  to  be  remarkably 
thin  at  the  sound-bow.  The  date  of  this  foundry  must  be  sub- 
sequent to  1413,  wlien  Henry  V.  substituted  three  ficur-de-lis 
in  the  first  and  fourtii  quarters  of  his  coat,  instead  of  a  semee  of 
fieur-de-lis. 


Fig.  36. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIIIE. 


25 


These  stamps  are  of  the  highest  interest  to  all  Cambridge 
antiquaries  as  connected  with  the  greatest  work  in  boll  metal 
which  has  been  heard  in  town  or  county,  the  five  bells  which 
forinerly  inhabited  the  clochard  of  King's  College. 

In  Mr  J.  W.  Clark's  paper  on  the  subject^  ample  and  most 
interesting  items  are  '^^uoted  from  the  College  "  Mnndum  Books," 
to  which  I  shall  have  occasion  to  refer,  for  with  their  help,  and 
that  of  the  accompanying  engraving,  reproduced  by  him  from  a 
careful  drawing  found  in  the  Muniment  Room,  campanalogists 
in  every  part  of  the  kingdom  will  find  traces  of  this  well-known 
mediieval  foundry,  a  conclusion  which  I  had  come  to  on  p.  20  of 
my  first  edition  of  the  Church  Bells  of  GamhridgesJdre. 

First,  then,  to  the  marks  on  the  bells,  with  wdiich  we  may 
compare  Blomcfield's  account^; — 

"On  the  first  is  this :— 3Iix  multi's  annts  tcsonct  (JTampann 

Jjoj&aunfS.  And  the  arms  of  France  and  England  qiuirtcrly, 
with  for  John  Dogget,  who  was  Provost  here  in  1500, 

when  it  was  new  run'cl.  The  second  hath  nothing.  The  third 
hath  AYE  MARIA  GRACIA  PLENA.    The  fourth  hath, 

Nomen  tuum  Sanctum  per  atria  cantabo 
Laudes  tuas,  Domino,  Laudibus  celebrabo. 
F.  D. 

The  fifth  weighs,  according  to  common  rejDort,  57  hundred 
weight,  and  hath  the  arms  of  France  and  England  quarter'd, 
and  the  impressions  of  a  coin  or  two,  on  one  is  a  cross  flore, 
on  another,  a  person  standing  by  a  crucifix,  and  this,  'CTvciUtatC 

xacra  fiat  Ijcc  (Eampana  i)cata.  I  take  it,  the  1st,  2nd,  Srd 
and  4th  have  been  run'd  since  they  were  first  made,  though  the 
ord  is,  and  perhaps  the  5th  may  be,  the  same  that  were  first 
run'd.    The  1st,  4th,  and  5th,  are  cracked^" 

Blomcfield's  account  thus  tallies  very  fairly  with  the  dis- 
covered drawincC"  We  have  therefore  on  the  1st  boil  a  cross 
flore,  probably  in  an  octagon,  as  at  S.  Botolpli  (1st  and  2nd), 
and,  among  otlw  !•  places,  at  Mildenhall,  Suffolk,  where  the  5tli 

^  Cai)ih.  Antiq.  Soc.  Comm.  Vol.  iv.  pt.  ni.  pp.  223,  &c. 
-  Blonu  ield,  Coll.  Cant.  p.  120. 
Collrc.  inea  Caiitdhn'niot.-^id,  p.  127. 


I 

I 


I 


26  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 

,  bears  the  same  reference  to  S.  John\  and  the  same  Koyal  Arms, 


Fig.  37. 


imcrowned,  (fig.  87) ^  and  a  reversion  of*  the  C  in  ^ampana, 
which  suggests  that  the  last  letter  is  a  reversed  (B,  not  tlie  1j) 
reported  by  Blomefield.  We  are,  however,  on  insecure  ground, 
as  the  pencil  sketch  which  accompanies  that  in  ink  does  not 
contain  the  horizontal  bar  in  the  last  letter. 

"  The  second  liath  nothing."    EiV  nihilo  fit  n  il. 

The  third  we  have  already  treated  of 

The  fourth,  after  various  changes,  is  that  recast  by  Richard 
Nicholson  in  1599 — IGOO.  There  is  very  little  on  it  but  the 
inscription.  The  initial  cross  certainly  looks  like  a  reproduction 
of  that  on  the  first  bell,  and  there  is  F.  D.  in  an  oblong,  the 
initials  of  some  person  unknown.  But  the  5th,  which  does  not 
seem  to  have  been  recast  since  1466,  may  be  taken  to  be  Henry 
Jurden's^  bell,  and  it  draws  the  first  in  with  it.  We  have  on  it, 
then,  a  floriated  cross,  a  square  medallion  representing  the 

1  S.  John  the  Baptist.  The  form  in  which  the  inscription  occurs  at 
Beddingham  and  Twineham,  Sussex,  on  two  bells  made  by  John  Tonne,  c. 
1540,  is  in  multts  aimis  nomcn  liaptistc  ioljannis.  The  word  liapttstc  occurs  at 
the  end  of  the  more  usual  form,  on  the  fourth  bell  at  Buckliorn  Weston,  Dorset. 
Mr  Clark  suggests  that  in  this  dedication  we  have  a  confirmation  of  the  position 
of  the  belfry  Avithin  the  churchyard  of  S.  John  the  Baptist. 

2  We  must  beware  of  forming  any  theory  as  to  the  difference  between  arms 
crowned  and  uncrowned.  On  the  Mildenhall  fourth,  now  recast,  evidently  cast 
with  the  5th,  the  arnis  were  crowned. 

^  "Item  sol'  liA'urico  Jurden  in  festo  sancti  Nicholai  (6  Dec.)  in  partem  solu- 
cionis  de  xl  li  pro  quadam  conuencione  facta  pro  Campanis — x''.  Item  sol' 
Henrico  Jurden  iu  partem  contentacionis  debit'  pro  le  Campanis  ij**  die  Julii-- 
x"."    Camb.  Anti ;  Soc.  Comm.  iv.  232. 


I 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


27 


crucifixion,  the  Royal  Arms  crowned,  the  inscription  '^TvCUCtatC 
§?acra  jPfat  {)CC  (iDampana  ^cata,  followed  by  a  repetition  of 
the  medallion  and  arms.    Now  it  is  the  opinion  of  Mr  Ella- 
Fig.  3M. 


combe,  in  which  I  entirely  agree,  that  the  cross  is  this  (fig.  38), 
a  very  rare  one,  only  found  at  West  Monkton,  Somerset,  in 
conjunction  with  the  well-known  mark  (fig.  34),  which  is  con- 
stantly seen,  as  we  know,  with  the  Royal  Arms,  crowned  as  well 
as  uncrowned.  The  character  of  this  cross  is  rather  French 
than  English,  and  reminds  one  strongly  of  the  floriated  crosses 
on  the  reverses  of  French  coins  of  the  period,  I  cannot  think 
that  if  the  cross  had  been  the  familiar  one  (fig.  3G)  our  very 
careful  draughtsman  would  have  omitted  the  words  *'ihu-merci- 
ladi  •  help     inside  the  circle. 

The  representation  of  the  Crucifixion  is  similar  to,  probably 
identical  with,  that  on  the  bell  at  Tarring  Neville,  Sussex, 
which  bears  the  marks  (figs.  31,  3G,  32)  as  well.  This  seems  to 
be  as  far  as  we  can  get  in  the  identification  of  tlie  marks 
on  the  first  and  iifth  bells.  The  extreme  rarity  of  the  cross  and 
medallion  on  tlio  fifth  suggests  an  idea,  which  I  ]iut  forward 
with  great  diffidence,  in  connection  with  the  two  traditions  about 
these  bells,  (i)  i  hat  they  were  given  to  Henry  VI.  by  Pope 


28  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Calixtus  III.,  (ii)  that  they  were  taken  from  a  church  in  France 
by  Henry  Y.  after  the  battle  of  Aginconrt.  If  there  be  any 
truth  in  the  latter  tradition,  not  in  itself  improbable  when  Eng- 
lish irritation  at  the  Alien  Priories  is  borne  in  mind,  the  former 
tradition  representing  some  manner  of  Ecclesiastical  Sanction 
for  the  "  conveyance/'  emanating  ^^erhaps  from  Chichele,  these 
marks  may  have  been  passed  on  from  bell  to  bell,  at  each  suc- 
cessive recasting.  The  fifth  bell,  if  it  came  from  France  origi- 
nally, certainly  was  broken  either  in  the  transit  or  during  its 
sojourn  in  London,  for  the  ''magna  campana,"  of  which  the 
Mundum  Book  for  1443  speaks,  was  hallowed  as  a  new  bell  in 
London  in  that  year.    The  second  item  quoted  by  Mr  Clark  is 

"XX  die  Julii.  Item  Willelmo  Hawke  p)ro  panno  lineo  et 
aliis  necessariis  in  benedictione  magne  Campane  apud  London 
iijs.  iiijd."  This  "  pannus  lineus"  is  called  in  the  Pontifical 
lintea  munda  ad  extergendam  campanam,  quando  opus  erit." 
The  principal  "alia  necessaria"  were  oleum  sanctum  infirmorum; 
sanctam  Chrisma ;  thymiama;  thus;  myrrha.  The  use  of  these 
implies  the  entire  service,  and  the  service  implies  that  the  bell 
is  a  new  one,  as  may  be  seen  by  any  who  Avill  be  at  the  pains  to 
read  it.  The  weight  of  this  new-hallowed  fifth  bell  may  be 
inferred  in  a  rough  way,  from  the  cost  of  its  carriage  from 
London,  Robert  Oliver  and  Pichard  Eskham  receiving  xl 5.  for 
that  service.  In  14G0  Coke  received  iiij?.  xiij^.  iiijrZ,  or  more 
than  twice  as  much,  for  bringing  "  Danyell  fender's  "  fifth  bell 
from  London  to  Cambridge.  This  latter  could  hardly  have 
been  decreased  by  Henry  Jurden  in  1466,  if  we  may  draw  a 
conclusion  from  the  large  sum  of  £40  paid  to  him  by  the 
College.  Jurden's  bell  weighed  2  tons  6  cwt.  2  qrs.  7  lbs.  If 
we  take  the  1448  fifth  to  have  weighed  about  a  ton,  we  sliall 
probably  not  be  very  far  out.  This  would  make  the  original 
peal  a  good  one  in  point  of  w^eight,  but  nothing  extraordinary. 
"  Danyell  fonder,"  the  artificer  of  1460,  seems  to  have  been  more 
ambitious,  but  by  no  means  successful.  At  once  a  bell  founder 
and  a  vintner ^  his  works  in  the  former  capacity  only  lasted  six 
years,  when  aft<_-r  an  outlay  of  nearly  £9  in  legal  expenses,  and 

1  "Item  sol'  Daiiyel  Belfouncler  v'°  die  Sept  in  partem  solncioiiis  do  cvj6' 
viij(Z  sibi  debitis  pro  j  lolio  vini  liij.s  iiij^Z," — Camh.  Antiq.  Soc.  Comm.  iv,  228- 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIIIE. 


29 


£40  to  Henry  Jurden,  the  College  appears  to  have  rested  awhile 
from  its  labours.  We  have  already  noticed  the  recastings  of 
the  second  bell.  The  first  of  these  operations  was  carried  out  by 
"  Thomas  harrys  de  London  Belfbunder,"  whose  initial  T  may 
perhaps  be  noted  in  the  stamp  [fig.  31],  or  who  may  be  identical 
with  the  T.  H.  found  at  Blather wy eke  and  Potterspury,  North- 
amptonshire \  We  know  nothing  about  him  except  from  the 
accounts,  which  shew  £10.  95.  Sd.  to  have  been  given  him  "pro 
mutacione "  (which  seems  synonymous  with  "  pro  fusione") 
secunde  Campane.  This  is  a  large  sum,  hardly  warranted  by 
a  bell  lasting  but  twenty-two  years.  Mr  Harrys  consumed  five 
pennyworth  of  wine  on  the  occasion  of  the  bell  being  brought 
home,  and  the  very  moderate  sum  of  three  pence  w^as  spent  in 
beer  at  the  casting,  a  cheering  consideration  for  the  total  ab- 
stainer, who  will  find  in  our  previous  pages  that  at  Ely  in  1347, 
4<s.  Qd.  was  spent,  "praster  staurum."  The  bell  recast  by  John 
Harrison  (of  whom  also  we  know  nothiDg)  in  1482 — 83  cannot 
have  been  one  of  the  peal.  The  clapper  cost  but  lOd.,  which  at 
2d.  per  lb.  would  give  a  weight  of  little  over  3  lbs.  The  carriage 
from  London  was. only  Qd.  This  may  have  been  the  bell  re- 
corded by  Bow^tell  as  hanging  in  the  north-east  pinnacle  of  the 
Chapel,  used  as  a  clock  bell,  inscribed  with  the  Salutation. 
With  these  observations  we  pass  for  the  present  from  Mr  Clark's 
most  valuable  paper  on  the  King's  College  bells,  wdiich  have 
fallen  into  their  place  in  our  treatise  through  their  connection 
with  the  contemporaneous  stamps  of  a  London  foundry  or  foun- 
dries. I  venture  to  suggest  that  the  more  elaborate  stamps 
(figs.  30,  31,  35)  came  into  use  after  the  days  of  Henry  Jurden. 

Of  all  foundries  in  East  Anglia  none  was  greater  than  that  of 
Norwich.  The  trade-name  of  Brasyer,  to  which  we  have  been 
already  introduced,  was  well  known  in  that  city  to  the  middle  of 
the  sixteenth  century.  The  Brasyers  were  followed  by  the  Brends, 
the  last  of  whom  cast  bells  up  to  the  time  of  the  Eestoration. 
During  the  whole  of  the  fifteenth  century  and  the  earlier  part 
of  the  sixteentli,  ilie  bells  issuing  from  this  foundry  bore  thrice 
on  the  crown  tlirt'C  bells  with  a  ducal  coronet  in  fess,  the  field 

1  Nf/ til's  Church  Bells  of  Northnmptonshire,  p.  7-i. 


30 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Fig.  39. 


being  sometimes  ermine  and  sometimes  sprigged  (fig.  39).  Mr 
L'Estrange's  conjecture  tliat  the  sprigged  shield  is  the  earher 
one,  the  ermine  being  introduced  to  make  it  more  heraldic, 
is  not  unreasonable.  In  Blomefield's  time  there  seems  hardly 
to  have  been  a  tower  in  Norfolk  without  one  or  more  of 
these  beautiful  bells — for  beautiful  they  are  alike  in  tone,  in 
shape,  and  in  lettering.  Even  now  there  remain  many  of  them 
in  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  but  I  know^  only  of  four  beyond  those 
limits — one  at  Chrishall,  Essex,  now  recast ;  one  which  I  was 
astonished  to  find  at  Ford  Abbey,  Dorsetshire,  some  years  ago ; 
and  two  in  Cambridgeshire.    These  are  Landwade  2nd,  and 


Fig.  40.  Fig.  41. 


Kennett  3rd.    They  are  both  of  the  sprigged  kind,  the  former 

inscribed:  »j<  ITfrgmfs  ^grcgte  Uocor  (^Tnmpana  illam:  and 


32 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIHE. 


the  latter :  ^<  J^tcn'tfs  (!Bi?munln'  g^i'mus     ODrfminc  iiaunbf. 

They  both  bear  an  initial  cross  formed  by  four  leaves,  with 
a  face  in  the  centre  (fig.  40),  and  at  the  rhyming  word  in  the 
line  a  lion's  head  (fig.  41). 

From  these  marks,  the  two  bells  may  be  set  down  as  the 
work  of  one  of  tli,e  two  founders  who  bore  the  name  of  Richard 
Brasyer,  of  whom  the  former  died  in  1482,  and  the  latter  in 
1513.  A  full  account  of  this  foundry  is  given  by  L'Estrange\ 
The  elegance  of  the  Norwich  lettering  will  be  shewn  by  the 
accompanying  C.  D.  F.  H.  L.  M.  N.  from  the  Brasyer  alphabet. 

Another  important  local  foundry  was  that  existing  at  Bury 
St  Edmund's  in  the  latter  half  of  the  fifteenth  century.  The 


Fig.  49. 


shield  (fig.  49)  contains  in  chief  a  coronet  with  cross-arrows  on 
each  side  of  it  (the  symbol  of  St  Edmund),  a  bell  in  the  centre, 
and  cross-keys  saltireways,  the  vacant  spaces  being  occupied  by 
the  letters  J)  and  in  base  a  cannon,  with  a  ball  coming  out  of 
its  mouth.  This  cannon  appears  to  mark  the  foundry  as  one 
for  guns  as  well  as  bells.  A  smaller  shield  of  a  like  character  is 
sometimes  found  (fig.  50).  Bells  thus  stamped  are  found  only 
in  the  eastern  counties,  with  the  exception  of  two  in  Northamp- 
tonshire, Eozeat  2Dd  and  Newton  Bromswold  2nd^    In  Cam- 

1  Church  Bells  of  Norfolk,  p.  31. 

2  Church  Bells  of  NorthmnpfovsJdre,  p.  70. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


bridgeshire  they  are  principally  inscribed  with  d^Xti  ^Bro  j^obl'S, 
Cheveley,  2nd,  and  Cambridge  St  Edward's,  5th,  being  dedicated 
to  St  Anna;  Snailwell,  8rd,  to  St  Peter;  Wicken,  3rd,  and 


Conington,  treble,  to  the  Virgin  ;  Stetchworth,  4th,  to  St  Marga- 
ret ;  Kingston,  2nd,  to  St  Catherine ;  and  Isleham  clock  bell,  to 
St  Andrew.  The  Priest's  bell  of  Trinity  parish,  Ely,  is  from 
this  foundry,  inscribed  :  ^  abc  C^rnCl'a  ■  picnn,  also  Trumpington 
4th,  with  its  incomplete  motto  QLtU,  "Bet.  iillUUtS ;  ^  (Slu'. 
lUcgnat.  [SvtnUS]  ^t.  ^llnuS.  Conington  tenor,  inscribed  'Ffr- 

go  ^ovonata  Buc  J2os  Hcgna  '^cata ;  and  the  third  at 
Isleham,  which  is  stamped  with  the  arms  of  Bernard  and  Pey- 
ton, and  bears  a  long  intercessory  prayer  addressed  to  the  angel 
Gabriel,  for  the  souls  of  John  Bernard,  Thomas  Peyton,  and 
their  wives.  The  fact  that  John  Bernard  died  in  1451,  and 
Thomas  Peyton  in  1484,  gives  an  approximate  date  for  this 


From  the  initial  cross,  stops,  and  lettering  of  the  Goton 
tenor,  which  bears  the  same  inscription  as  that  at  Conington, 
there  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  is  from  this  foundry.  The  letters, 
of  which  figs.  51,  52,  53  are  specimens,  are  all  capitals,  of  the 
Bury  type,  and  the  cross  (fig.  54)  and  stop  (fig.  55)  are  identical 
with  those  the  tenor  at  Risby,  Suffolk,  which  bears  the  Bury 
stamp.  At  Wicken,  Conington,  Stetchworth,  and  Kingston 
Ave  find  the  same  initial  cros.-^.  One  of  a  simihir  character  is 
found  sometir-es  in  a  square  and  sometimes  in  an.  octagon. 


Fig.  50. 


bell. 


CPIURCU   BELLS  OF  CAMEIUDGESH lUR. 


THE  CIIUllCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRlDGESllir.E. 


I  should  consider  the  two  little  bells  which  hang  in  tliat 
miracle  of  architectural  construction,  the  tower  at  Carletou,  to 
be  vSry  early  instances  of  Bury  founding. 

Should  any  campanalogist  wish  to  see  them,  an  early  visit 
is  requested ;  as  before  long  in  one  of  these  high,  gales  they 
will  be  deposited,^  possibly  not  uninjured,  on  the  floor  of  tliat 
little  church.  The  smaller  of  the  two  has  the  Bury  S  (fig. 
53),  which  never  can  be  mistaken,  but  the  letters  of  the  in- 
scription ^  a  n  C  t  a  •  Jit  aria  are  set  with  intervals,  which  is 
generally  a  sign  of  earlier  date.  The  larger  one,  inscribed  with 
the  Salutation,  has  a  common  Bury  small  stop.  Here  the 
letters  are  grouped  into  words,  but  the  bell  is  remarkably  long- 
waisted. 

From  the  letters  on  the  Bury  shield  it  would  seem  tliat  the 
initials  of  the  first  founder  who  used  it  were  ?B.  but  after- 
wards this  foundry  was  carried  on  successively  by  two  men 
named  Cliyrch,  Chirche,  or  Church — father  and  son — Reujuold 
CJiyrch  and  TJiomas  CJiijrcli.  The  former,  who  is  described  as  a 
burgess  of  Bury  St  Edmund's,  died  in  the  year  1408,  and  the 
following  extracts  from  his  will,  dated  IGth  February  in  that 
year,  have  been  supplied  to  me  by  Mr  Tymms : — 

"i\Iy  body  to  be  bur}'cd  in  l~>cyiit  Mary  cliirclie,  in  tlic  Ele  of  Soynt 
Pot',  vnder  tlio  marble  «ton  tlier  Ije  me  leid.  To  the  pai'N  sslic  }>reest  of 
the  same  chirche  to  p'y  for  my  soule,  and  to  reherse  my  name  in  the  ]jede- 
rolle  euy  Sunday  be  an  hooU  yeer,  vjs.  viijt/.  Myn  executors  shall  ^■isite 
all  the  psones  that  lye  sike  &  bedred,  gevy'g  eu'y  psoji  iiijc/.,  or  moi-e,  as 
they  th_ynke  nede.  My  executo'"s  to  kepe  a  sangrede  &  an  ertlit^'dc  }'eerly 
for  my  soule,  &c.,  in  the  chirche  of  our  lady.  To  the  new  werke  w'in  the 
Monast'y  of  Seynt  Edm'nd  x  m'rc.  To  the  gilde  of  the  holy  n^me  of 
Jhu'  X5.  To  the  gilde  of  Corpus  Xpi,  xijc?.  To  the  gilde  of  Seynt  Petyr, 
xijt^.  To  the  gilde  of  the  Purificac'on  of  our  lady  callyd  Candclmesse 
gilde,  xxs.  To  the  gilde  of  Seynt  Margerete,  iijs.  m'y.l.  To  the  gikle  of 
the  Decollac'on  of  Seynt  John  Baptist,  xxc/.  &  a  cuppc  of  silu'  called  a 
peace.  My  iij  smale  ten'ntries  set  in  lieyngatestrete  shall  remayn  to 
almesis  housis  for  eu'.  Itni.  I  will  Avery  foppys  have  hir  dwellyng  in  on 
of  the  same  almesse  housis  duryng  hir  lyve.  It'm,  I  will  the  seid  Avery 
foppe  haue  of  my  goods  quarterly,  xxcZ.  as  longe  as  she  levyth,  after  the 
discresson  of  myn  execute's.  It'm,  I  will  that  Alls  Power  haue  hir  dwellyng 
in  the  hous  that  i  bought  of  hir  durying  hir  lytFe,  and  aft'  hir  disreiise  I 
will  the  seid  ho;^^  shalbe  leten  eu'  a.ft'  to  tbeiitent  that  the  seid  almes.so 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


housis  may  be  repared  &  susteyned  vp  w'  the  fFcrme  of  the  same  hous  for 
eu'.  I  will  that  Thorns  Chirche  my  sone  do  make  clenc  tlie  grete  lectorn 
that  I  gave  to  Seynt  Mary  chirche  qiiart'ly  as  louge  as  he  levyth." 

The  younger  Chyrclie  makes  his  appearance  in  the  Mnndum 
Book  at  King's  College  for  the  year  1500,  in  connection  with 
the  bells  of  which  we  J.iave  already  spoken. 

Tlie  second  of  these  bells  appears  to  have  passed  through 
unusual  mutations.  In  14G0  it  was  recast  by  "  Danyell  fonder." 
In  1466  it  was  again  recast  with  tlie  rest  by  Henry  Jurden. 
In  1478  it  was  recast  by  Thomas  Harrys  "de  london  Bel- 
founder\"  In  1500  it  was  recast  by  Thomas  Chyrche,  who 
justifies  the  name  Potter  as  assumed  by  media?val  founders  by 
supplying  the  College  kitchen  with  various  culinary  vessels.  I 
give  the  extracts  fronrMr  Clark's  paper: — 

j\Imidum  Book  (1500 — 1501).    Ctcsiits  ecdesie. 

"Item  xij"  die  Februarii  SoF  thome  chyrche  de  bury  in 
partem  Solutionis  secunde  campaue  de  novo  fuse    x" 

Item  xviij"  die  aprihs  Sol'  thome  chyrche  de  bury  in  partem 
solutionis  secunde  campane  de  novo  fuse   x' 

Item  xij"  die  Septembris  sol  thome  chyrche  de  bury  in  ple- 
nam  solutionem  secunde  campane  de  novo  fuse   iiij" 

Expense  necessarie 

Item  xv"  die  se}>tembi'is  sol  thome  chyrche  de  bury  pro  \'na 
oUa  pro  cocpiina  pond'  iij  quart'  of  C  &  v  li  cum  cambio  antiqui 
metalli  pond'  j  quart'  of  C!  &  yj  li,  et  pro  ij  ladylls   xvj' 

Reparaciones 

It'  iiij'"  die  novembris  sol'  iiij'"'  carpentariis  per  iiij"  dies 
v"  iiij'^  et  pro  Ic  hangyng  secunde  campane  ij"   vij'  iiij'"' 

Finally,  in  1598,  it  was  exchanged  with  Mr  Nicholson  for  a 
blank  bell,  as  we  have  already  seen.  After  all  tliis,  strange 
doubts  as  to  what  constitutes  the  identity  of  a  bell  cannot  fail 
to  enter  the  mind. 

Thomas  Church  was  also  employed  by  the  authorities  of 
Cambridge  St  Mary-the-Great,  in  1514,  the  parish-book  for  that 
year  mentioning  ''an  obligacyon  for  Tho.  Church,  bell-founder 
of  Bery."    Tin:  will  of  Thomas  Chyrch,  dated  12th  July,  1527, 

1  Mutacione  in  the  accounts  is  clearly  synonymous  with  fusione.  See  Mr 
Clark's  paper,  p.  2:  3. 


I 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBillDGESHlK  1^:. 


87 


lias  been  examined  by  Mr  Tymms,  avIio  has  kindly  supplied  me 
with  these  extracts  : — 

"  My  body  to  be  buried  in  Seyiit  Mary  chirch  in  the  Ele  of  Soynt  Petyr', 
vnd'  the  ston  ther  be  me  layd.  A  priest  to  synge  for  my  soule  at  the 
Awter  of  Seynt  Thom's,  &c.,  for  5  yrs.  To  the  ,seid  cliirche  of  o'  lady 
oon  food  of  led.  To  feu'y  of  the  iiij  priests  that  shall  bore  my  body  to 
chirche,  xi^d.  To  Margaret  my  wyfe,  my  ten't  ioynyng  to  the  capital! 
ten't  late  my  ffadres  in  the  Southgate  strete,  su'tyuLO  called  Cobbolds.  To 
Seynt  Nicholas  Gykle  holdyn  in  the  College  w'  tliyji  tlie  seid  Town  of  Bur\', 
a  litil  stondyng  maser." 

After  the  death  of  Thomas  Chja^ch  the  Bury  foundry  was  con- 
tinued under  Roger  Reve,  who  cast- the  2nd  bell  at  Depden,  or 
Debden,  Essex,  in  1533,  giving  an  obligacyon  "  hi  the  sum  of 
£40  for  the  bell  remaining  good  for  a  year  and  a  day.  As  this 
bond  would  probably  be  similar  to  that  entered  into  by  Chyrch 
in  1514,  I  give  it  as  found  in  the  East  Anglian\ 

The  condicon  of  this  obhgaoon  is  sucho  that  if  the  meaue  Ijelle  wliiclie 
the  w^inbound  Roger  Reve  hath  made  newe  to  the  p'isshe  Cliurcli  of 
Depden,  in  tlie  Countie  of  Essex,  dure  p'sever  and  abide  save  and  Imll  in 
towne  Sounde  &  metall  "Well  &  sufficiently  concordyng  to  the  other 
belle  of  tlie  said  Churche  be  oii  holl  yeer  and  one  day  immediatly  fi>h:)w- 
iiig  aft'  the  Date  w^inwriten  that  then  this  p'sent  obligarmi  to  be  void. 
And  if  it  hap}>en  the  said  meane  Belle  to  discorde  or  lavke  through  defaute 
of  woorkmaiishi[)  w'in  the  said  yeer  &  on  day,  Tlieji  the  said  Roger  or  his 
assignes  Agen  shall  make,  or  cause  to  be  made,  or  chaunge  the  said  meane 
belle,  uiitill  the  saide  meane  Belle  be  Suthcient  in  concord  to  tlie  other 
Belle  of  the  saide  church.  And  the  w'innamed  Will'm  AVill'm  Sc  Ricliard 
or  they'  assignes  shall  carie  &  recarie  the  -said  meane  belle  from  Dei)deii 
forsaid  to  bury  Saint  Edmonds,  &  agayn  from  Bury  to  Depden  as  often 
as  nede  vshall  be.  And  the  said  Roger  to  content  &  pay  for  the  cariage  of 
tlie  same  meane  belle.  And  the  w'innamed  AVilliam  Will'm  &  Richard,  or 
their  assignes,  shall  take  up  &  downe  the  said  meane  .bell  out  &  into  the 
Steple  of  the  said  Churche,  And  Sett  it  in  the  churche  yard  ther  redy  to 
the  carte  as  often  as  nede  slialbe  at  their  p'pre  coste  &  cliarge.  31oreov', 
it  is  agreed  betwen  tlie  said  p'tics  tliat,  if  the  said  meane  belle  be  more 
in  pondes  whan  it  is  now  new  yoten  than  it  was  before,  then  tlie  said 
.Will'm  Will'm  <fc  Richard,  or  one  of  tliem,  to  content  &  }niy  to  the  s;ud 
Roger  Aft'  th'.'  i!ate  of  xxx6\  the  hundred  of  &  xij  to  the  liiiDdi'ed  ; 
And  if  it  wa \  r  '.vsse,  the  said  Roger  to  cojitent  &  })ay  to  the  said  Will'm 
AVill'm  &  Richard  Aft'  the  Rate  of  xv.s\  the  hundred  aft'  the  same  Avnight 
or  ells  this  p'sf  n.t  oldigacon  to  stond  in  full  strength  &  ?/.sv'  ('.) 


I 


38 


TPIE  CPIURCH  BELLS  OF  CAM13IlIDGESniRE. 


On  the  other  side  of  the  parchment  is  written  : — 

Nov'iiit  univ\si  p.  pseiites  me  Rog'iim  Reve  cle  Bury  sc'i  Ed'i  in  Com' 
SufF.,  clotlicar  toneri  &  firmit'  obligari  Will'mo  West  de  Depden  in  Com' 
I'^ssex,  Gentihnan,  Will'mo  Byrde  et  Eic'o  liamond  de  ead'm  yomen  in 
quadraginta  libr'  Sterlingor'  Solvend'  eisd'm  Will'o  Will'o  et  Bic'o  sen  eor' 

attorri  vel  execut'  et  assign'  snis  Ad  fcstiim  nativit's  Sc'i  Joli'is  Bap'te 

pxfiitur'  post  dat'  Ad  quam  quid'm  Solvend,  bene  et  fidelit'  facieiid' 

obligo  me  liered'  &  execut'  meos  pp'sent  Sigillo  meo  Sigillat'.  Dat'  Decimo 
octavo  die  Junij  Anno  regni  Regis  henrici  Oi  tavi  Yicesinio  quinto. 

The  treble  at  Impington  bears  a  shiekl  (fig.  5G),  Avhich  is 
known  in  many  parts  of  England,  from  Tixover  in  Ruthmd- 


Fig.  5Q. 


shire ^  to  St  Micliael  Penkivel  in  Cornwall'^  The  lettering  used 
in  connection  with  this  stamp  is  said  by  Mr  Tyssen^  to  have 
fallen  into  the  Iiands  of  a  founder  whose  initials  were  J.  S. 
These  initials  are  found  at  Long  Stow  in  this  county,  and  in 
many  other  places,  sometimes  in  conjunction  with  the  Royal 
Arms  surmounted  by  a  small  lozenge.  The  fleur-de-lis  in  the 
first  and  fourth  quarters  are  three  in  number.  From  the  large 
nnmber  of  bells  in  Kent  bearing  this  shield  Mr  Tyssen  thinks 
that  it  was  originally  the  mark  of  a  founder  from  that  county. 
The  latest  known  use  of  it  is  at  Kingsbury,  Middlesex,  on  a  bell 
dated  1604. 

1  North's  Church  Bclh  of  Kutland,  p.  -13. 
^  Dunkin's  Church  Bells  of  Cornwall,  pp.  83,  43. 
Chu  ch  Belh  of  Sussex,  p.  13. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDCESlill^E. 

Two  other  bells  deserve  notice  as  connectcMl  with  tins 
stamp,  the  Tadlow  bell  and  the  second  at  Caldecote.  The 
former,  inscribed  ^  g^aUCtC  ^^utJVlC  (sic)  ©ra  ^Ol'O  iiobl'S,  is 
very  indistinct  in  its  lettering  and  marks,  but  may  in  my 
opinion  hh  referred  to  this  group.    The  latter  is  of  a  type 


Fig,  57. 


unique  in  this  couuty,  but  not  uncommon  in  tlie  ]\lidhu!ds. 
The  marks  on  it  nve  in  the' following  order:  (1)  l^ig.  57,  which 
is  a  crowned  "W/most  likely  the  initial  letter  of  the  fouiidc'r's 
Christian  name;  (2)  the  reverse  of  an  English  coin  ;  (")  a  cross 
(hg.  58) ;  (4)  another  foriviod  by  four  fleur-de-lis  meeting  at  their 


40  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CA:\1BIIIDGESHIEE. 

tips,  under  a  coronet-moulding  (fig.  59) ;  (5)  a  large-eared  head 
Avitli  protruding  tongue  (fig.  CO) ;  and  ((3)  a  shield  bearing  a  cross 


Fig.  60.  Fig.  Gl. 


(fig.  61).  The  last  but  one  is  to  my  mind  a  better  represen- 
tation of  tlie  head  in  question  than  is  that  which  we  find  in  Mr 
Ellacombe's  and  Mr  North's  books  (fig.  62),  which  T  here  give 

Fig.  G2. 


for  identification.  Now  the  connection  of  this  make  with  the 
cross-and-ring  shield  (fig.  56)  was  shewn  by  Mr  A.  D.  Tyssen^ 
and  confirmed  by  Mr  North  ^ ;  but  whether  J.  S.  stands  for 
John  Saunders  of  Reading,  who  cast  bells  in  that  town  from 


^  Chnrch  I'dh  of  Sasaex,  p.  18. 

"     liiiirh  Bi'Ux  of  Northtuiq^tontiJiire,  p.  GG. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


41 


1539  to  1559,  it  is  impossible  now  to  say.  We  must  hope  to 
read  some  of  these  riddles  hereafter.  Mr  Ellacombe  uotes  the 
shield  No.  Gl  as  on  the  tenor  at  Whatley,  Somerset,  which 
bears  the  initials  V.  H.  with  capitals  crowned  like  those  on  the 
Caldecote  2ncl.  He  supposes  (with  a  query)  that  these  initials 
may  be  those  of  William  Henshaw  of  Gloucester,  who  died  in 
1509\    The  Caldecote  W  may  then  possibly  be  his. 

We  now  come  to  three  bells  marked  with  a  shield,  bearing  a 
bell  between  tlie  letters  (fig.  63).  These  are  Little  Grans- 


Fig.  C3. 


den  2nd,  and  the  2nd  and  tenor  at  Rampton.  Bells  bearing 
this  stamp  are  found  in  many  parts  of  England.  I  have  found 
one  (Cudham  2nd)  in  Kent,  and  there  is  a  complete  peal  of  five 
in  St  Bartholomew's,  Bartholomew  Close,  London.  The  tower 
of  Llandewednack,  in  Cornwall,  contains  two  of  them.  Mr  A. 
J3aniel  Tyssen  notes  four  in  Sussex.  His  argument  as  to  the 
locality  of  the  foundry  being  London,  and  its  age  about  the 
middle  of  the  sixteenth  century  is  quite  satisfactory ;  but  I  do 
not  see  why  the  founder's  name  should  not  be  Bullisdon,  a 
name  which  occurs  as  that  of  a  London  founder  in  1510".  As 
the  well-knoAvn  stamp  (fig.  34)  occurs  on  both  the  Rampton 
bells,  this  founder  is  probably  a  successor  to  Henry  Jurden  and 
others  associati'' 1  with  him  in  London  in  the  middle  of  the  15tU 

^  CJiurcIi  Ju'ILs  of  SoDtfvsct,  p.  !).!. 
-  Church  Bells  of  Sus.'^c.r,  \^v.  IT),  lO. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS.  OF  CAMBRIDGESIJIRE. 


century.  A  cine  was  given  to  the  date  of  tbis  stamp  by  its 
occurring  on  a  bell  at  Weele}^  Essex,  with  an  intercessory 
prayer  for  the  souls  of  William  and  Agnes  Brooke.  Mr  A.  D. 
Tyssen  followed  it  up  at  Somerset  House,  and  crtmes  to  tlie 
conclusion  that  the  Agnes  Brooke  in  question  died  in  1506. 
This  jumps  well  with  ^^ullisdon's  date. 

Perhaps  the  most  elaborate  shield  is  one  (fig.  G4)  which 
only  occurs  once  in  the  county,  on  the  Landbeach  tenor.  From 


Fig.  Gl. 


the  figure  of  tlie  bird  (which,  though  really  more  like  one  out  of  a 
child's  "Noah's  Ark"  than  anything  else,  was  supposed  to  resem- 
ble a  peacock)  added  to  the  P  below  the  tongue  of  the  bell,  the 
founder's  name  was  conjectured  by  some  to  be  WiUiahi  Pecoche. 
Another  theory,  that  of  the  name  WilliaDi  Bijrd,  or  WiJJinm 
Sparroiv,is  suggested  by  the  words  ^\\  tlMno  CO^fiiJO  :  au  alhision 
beingf  ima^fined  to  the  continuation  of  the  verse  of  the  Psalm 
(xi.  1) — "  quomodo.  dicitis  anima3  meai :  Transmigra  in  montem 
sicut  passer  ?"  How  say  ye  then  to  my  soul  that  slic  should 
flee  as  a  bird  to  lier  hill  ?" 

These  guess. \s  of  the  rebus,  however,  were  finally  disposed 
of  by  Mr  A.  J).  Tyssen^,  who  has  shewn  tlie  name  of  tlie  founder 

'  15y  letter  to  nic,  .1«80. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMl^rJCGESHIllE. 


to  be  IVilUam  Citlverclen  (''Culver"  being  an  old  word  for 
Avood-pigeon,  probably  corrupted  from  columha),  Avho  was  carry- 
ing on  his  business  in  1510,  in  which  year  his  name  occurs  in 
the  parisli  accounts  of  St  Mary-at-Hill,  London. 

It  is  very  pleasant  to  find  an  extinct-  old  English  word 
occurring  in  a  rebus,  and  I  have  collected  in  the  appended  note 
a  few  instances  of  its  use  in  our  early  literature  and  dialect 
vocabularies  \ 

Through  the  kindness  of  Mr  J.  R.  Daniel  Tyssen  I  am 
enabled  to  give  the  Avill  of  this  founder,  whose  business  seems 
to  have  been  of  an  extensive  character,  though  very  few  of  liis 
bells  remain.  There  are  none  in  Norfolk,  Sussex,  Northampton- 
shire, Leicestershire,  Rutland,  Devon,  Cornwall  and  Somerset. 
All  that  1  have  ever  heard  of  are  at  Boughton  Aluph,  Kent  ; 
Brentford,  Middlesex  ;  Elsenham,  Takely  and  Wicken  Breaux, 
Essex ;  Furneaux  Pelham,  Plertfordshire ;  Stratford  St  ^lary, 
Suffolk;  and  Steeple,  Dorset.  The  will  speaks  for  itself,  the 
testator's  gratitude  to  the  place  of  his  education  and  faith ful- 

1  See  the  BUclding  TlomlUes  (not  later  than  a.d.  971),  E.  E.  T.  S.,  p.  157, 
where  our  Lord  addresses  tlie  Virgin  Mary  '  Aris  mm  seo  neliste  &  mm 
cidufre  &  mines  \viildres  eardung,'   Cf.  pp,  23,  l')5. 

"Under  thi  colver  hons  in  alle  the  brede 
Make  mewcs  tweyno. " 

ralJadius  on  JIughondric,  E.  E.  T.  S.,  p.  21. 

"Natnra  cohimbe  et  siguificacio. 
D^-  ciihier  hane<S  coftef  gode, 
alle  wef  ogen  to  haiien  in  mode." 

(From  a  Bestiary  of  the  13th  century,  contained  in  the  "  Old  English  Mis- 
cellany," edited  by  I)r  E.  Morris,  E.  E.  T.  S.,  p.  25.) 

It  is  included  by  John  Worlidge  of  Petersfield  in  his  Dictionarinm  Jhn^tioo)! 
(1G81),  "a  pidgeon  or  dove;  thence  culver-housp and  by  Jolin  Ihiy  in  liis 
collection  of  South  and  East-country  words  (IGDl),  ''ab  A.  S.  culj'rc,  cohnnba," 
excluded  from  his  North-country  list;  included  in  "W.  Marsball's  West  Devon 
Pronunciations,  1790;  and  in  Pegge's  Aiphahet  of  Kenticisms  occurs  the  word 
Culverkeys,  s,  pi.  cowslips  ;  from  culver,  a  pigeon. 

"Culver"  is  included  in  the  Lancashire  Glossary  (p.  90)  by  Nodal  and 
Milner,  with  quriiai ions  from  Spenser,  Sonnet  38,  and  Teares  of  the  Muxes, 
1.  245;  is  noted  .^ii  -nlcte  in  Peacock's  Manloy  and  Corringluim  (ilossary,  :ind 
virtually  so  in  l'ai-i>h's  Sussex  Dialect,  p.  33,  where  the  author  says  "  A  i)igcon 
or  dove.  This  name  is  retained  in  a  field  at  Selmeston,  \\hich  is  called  tlic 
culver  ake  (the  pi  go  u's  oak)." 


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ness  to  his  guilds  shewing  well  for  his  character,  thongli  the 
executors  found  themselves  unable  to  carry  out  his  intentions:  — 

In  the  name  of  God  Amen  :  the  xxix"'  day  of  the  moneth  of  September, 
in  the  yere  of  our  Lord  God  a  thousande  fyve  hundred  and  xxij  :  and  the 
xiiij*  yere  of  the  reigne  of  king  Henry  the  \  iij'^ 

I  Willni  Culverd(?fi,  citezen  and  bra.sier  of  London,  and  x)ari.shoner  of 
the  parishe  of  sanct  Botulph  without  Algate  of  London,  being  hi  my 
goode  hole  and  parfite  mynde  (lawde  and  praise  be  to  Almighty  G(xl) 
make  and  ordeyn  this  my  put  testament  and  laste  will  in  nianer  and 
fourme  folowing,  that  is  to  wit. 

Ffirst  &  principally  above  all  things  I  bequeth  and  recomende  my 
soule  to  Ahnighty  God  my  maker  savyor  and  redemer,  to  his  most 
gloiious  and  blisscd  moder  saint  JNIary  tlie  virgyn  and  to  all  the  holy 
company  of  lievyn, 

and  my  hody  to  be  buried  in  the  church  or  churchyai'de  of  saint 
Botulph  afoi'Sc'iid  where  and  in  such  place  as  myii  executours  by  the 
advise  of  myn  overseer  underwriten  shall  tliinke  most  convenient,  and 
I  will  that  my  said  executours  shall  doo  for  me  at  my  buriall  as  they  sliall 
tliinke  best  by  tlie  advise  of  my  said  overseer. 

Item  I  bequeth  to  the  high  awter  of  the  said  pari  she  of  saint  Botulph 
for  my  tithes  and  oblacions  necligently  forgotten  or  in  any  nianer  of 
wise  witholden  xij"*. 

Item  I  bequeth  towards  the  mayntenance  of  tlie  bi'otlierhed  of  Ihu 
kept  w'in  the  said  church  of  saint  Botulph  wherof  I  am  brother  xij'^ 

Also  I  wil  that  my  executours  pay  for  me  such  duetios  towards  the 
lights  and  other  brethorhedds  by  me  due  in  the  same  churche  for  tlie  yere 
past  as  I  have  been  accustumed  to  paye. 

Also  where  I  am  bouiide  yerely  during  my  life  to  paye  xx]'^  to  the 
guylde  of  our  blessed  lady  of  Boston  wherof  I  am  Ijrother  I  will  that  myn 
executours  paye  for  me  xvj*^,  which  I  owe  to  the  said  guylde  for  tliis 
yere  past. 

Also  where  I  am  brother  of  diverse  other  bretherheds  and  in  diverse 
other  pardons  as  apperith  by  diverse  tres  of  the  same  I  will  that  myn 
executours  shall  pay  my  duetie  for  this  yere  past  yf  it  l)e  asked. 

Also  I  becjueth  to  the  abbey  of  Westmynster  where  I  was  brought 
upp  in  my  youth  to  be  bestowed  in  the  same  church  for  the  welth  of 
my  soule  sxxiij"  viij*^  yf  it  may  be  borne  of  my  goodes  after  my  detts 
be  fully  paide  or  ells  not. 

And  as  towelling  my  termes  of  yeres  yet  to  come  of  my  house  shcdds 
and  gardyii,  whirh  I  nowe  dwell  in,  w'  all  the  comodities  and  appurtennes 
bilonging  to  tl  same,  sett  lying  and  being  in  Houndisdich  within  the 
said  parishe  saint  Botulph,  wh-ich  I  have  of  the  lees  &  graunt  of  the 
priour  and  co\  eiit  of  Grists  church  in  London,  apperyng  by  indentiu'e 
bitwcnc  them    aid  me  thei'of  made,  I  have  soldo  to  I'liMinas  Lawrence 


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of  London  Belmaker  for  the  yerely  rent  of  x  nircs  by  yere,  to  be  paidc 
unto  me  or  to  myn  executours  as  by  a  paire  of  indentures  of  covennts 
]>it\vcne  the  said  Thomas  and  me  made  doth  playnly  appere ;  which  yerely 
rent  of  x  "mrcs  by  yere  I  will  that  myn  executoiirs  shall  [  ]  and  sufire 
tlie  said  Thomas  Lawrence,  for  the  discharge  and  savegarde  as  well  of 
In'mself  as  of  me  and  myn  executours,  yerely  to  paye  to  the  said  ])Yio^ 
aiid  covent  of  Grists  chvirch  forsaid,  for  the  yerely  rents  of  x  mrcs  to 
them  coming  and  due  of  the  said  hous  and  appurtennts  during  the  said 
termes, 

for  as  moch  as  I  stande  bounde  by  the  said  indenture  of  coveimts 
to  discharge  the  said  Thomas  and  his  executours  of  almaner  quite  rents 
going  out  of  the  same  hous  and  appurtennts  ;  and  that  the  said  prior  and 
covent  for  lak  of  payment  may  at  altymes  reentre  and  distreyn  upon  the 
same  grounde  and  goodes  founde  upon  the  same  ; 

provided  alweys  that  this 

articuU  be  not  preiudiciall  no  hurt  to  me  nor  myn  executours  con- 
cerning the  other  covennts  expressed  and  declared  in  the  said  indenture 
of  covennts. 

And  furthermore  as  touching  all  &  singular  my  belmolds  and  implements 
w*  all  other  stufFe  w'  in  tlie  said  house  grounde  and  shedds  neccssarye  and 
belonging  to  the  craftc  or  science  of  Belfoimders  or  brasiers  which  par- 
ticulerly  ben  expi'esscd  in  an  other  pair  of  indentures  made  also  bitwene 
me  and  the  said  Thomas  Lawrens,  I  have  in  like  wise  solde  to  the  said 
Thomas  Lawrence  for  the  sume  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  pounds  sterling 
to  be  paide  to  me  or  myn  executours  or  assignes  as  by  the  s;dd  indenture 
of  covennts  playnly  doth  appere  ; 

which  termes  of  yeres  and  belmolds  implements  and  other  stufie  I 
will  and  charge  myn  executours  tliat  they  sufire  the  said  Thomas  Lawrence 
to  have  and  enioye  according  to  his  bargeyn  and  covennts  resited  in 
the  said  indenture  ;  so  that  the  said  Thomas  Lawrens  w^ell  and  truely 
observe  fulfill  kepe  and  performs  all  and  ev'y  the  covennts  graunts  and 
payments  which  on  his  partie  owen  to  be  performed  obser\ed  and  kept 
in  manor  and  fourme  as  in  the  said  indentures  of  co^'ennts  is  specified 
and  declared. 

which  money  I  will  that  myn  executours  shal  rcceyve  of  the  said 
Thonias  Lawrence  and  his  executours  at  the  dales  expressed  in  tlie  said 
indenture  as  they  shall  come  and  growe  ooii  after  the  other,  and  thcrw' 
to  paye  my  detts  as  ferre  as  the  said  money  will  extende. 

And  for  lack  of  payment  of  the  sume  of  cxx"  or  any  parte  therof  to 
be  paide  in  manor  and  fourme  as  in  the  said  indenture  of  covennts  is 
declared  and  specified  I  will  that  myn  executours  shall  reentre  into  and 
upon  the  said  hous.'  grounde  and  shedds  with  the  appurtennces  and  also 
belmolds  implem';}ii,s  and  other  stufle  according  to  the  tenor  and  eflect 
of  the  said  indentures. 

The  residue  of   dl  &  singular  my  goodes  catalls  and  detts,  niy  detts 


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paid  my  funeral  costs  doon  and  my  bequests  fulfilled,  I  gevc  and  bequcth 
hooly  unto  my  very  trusty  goode  frends,  Sir  Roger  Preston  clerk,  Sir 
John  Osborne  clerk,  parishe  prest  of  the  parishe  church  of  saint  Botulpli, 
William  Gurrowe  Taluglichaundeler  and  Jolui  Eyon  fruturer  citezens  of 
London,  whom  of  this  my  present  testamet  and  last  will  I  niake  ordeyn 
and  specially  require  in  the  way  of  charitie  to  be  myn  executours  and  to 
se  my  detts  paide  as  fafr  as  my  goodes  and  detts  will  extende. 

And  if  any  overplus  of  my  said  goodes  and  detts  shall  then  remayn, 
they  to^  bestow  it  at  their  free  will  for  the  welth  of  my  soule  and  all 
xpen  soules. 

And  I  bequetli  unto  CN'cry  of  them  for  their  payne  and  labour  to 
be  liad  in  and  about  the  premisses  xxs. 

And  overseer  of  this  my  present  testament  and  last  will  I  ordeyn  and 
make  Thomas  Thacker  gentilman  and  desire  him  in  waye  of  charitie 
to  be  counseilling  and  helping  to  my  said  executours  for  tlie  performamis 
of  this  my  said  testament  and  last  will,  and  I  ge\'e  and  bequeth  luito  him 
for  his  payne  and  labour  to  be  had  in  that  behalf  x\ 

In  witnesse  wherof  to  this  my  present  testament  and  last  will  I  have 
subscribed  my  name  with  myn  own  hande  the  daye  and  yere  aljove 
wryten  Thise  being  witnesse  unto  the  same,  Thomas  Holland,  Johii 
Tynny,  Thomas  Lawrence,  John  Leyland,  Willm  Anys,  Robert  Pembcrton, 
Thomas  Hayward,  with  di\'ei'se  other  parsones. 

Secundo  die  mensis  Junii  anno  dni  millimo  quingentesimo  xxiij"  coram 
prfato  condssariis  in  ecclia  cath  divi  pauli  London  dns  Pogerus  Preston 
clicus  &  Johannes  Ryon  executores  testament!  prescript!  Willi  Cuh'erden 
defuncti  recusarunt  in  se  assumero  omis  execucionis  dci  testi  Et  comissa 
fuit  admistracio  auctc  prcfutor'  et  more  patrum  om  &  singulorum  jurum  & 
creditorum  dci  defuncti  p'fat  duo  Rogero  Preston  et  Jolianni  Ryon  per 
viain  intestati  de  bene  et  Meliter  administrand.  Ac  de  pleno  et  fideli 
in""  citra  festum  nativitatis  sti  Johnis  Ijapte  prox  futur  exhibend  necnon 
deplano  &  vero  compoto  reddend  ad  sancta  dei  evngelia  in  debita  juris 
forma  jurat^. 

Two  of  the  names  in  the  document  are  to  be  observed, 
Thomas  Lawrence  and  John  Tynny.  It  seems  strange  that  the 
former,  for  whom  Culverden  designed  his  business,  should  have 
left  such  scanty  traces  of  himself ;  but  I  am  inclined  to  attribute 
to  him  the  tenor  at  Kingston,  which  bears  the  accompanying 
representation  of  a  gridiron  (fig.  65),  which  I  have  but  once  heard 
of  elsewhere,  at  Margaretting,  Essex.  Lawrence  may  have  used 
this  mark,  being  the  symbol  of  the  saint  v/hose  naine  formed 
his  own  surnaiuo.  It  is  placed  between  two  impressions  of  the 
reverse  of  some  coin  of  the  period,  after  the  manner  of  Wihiam 
1  P.  C.  C,  Somerset  House,  8,  Bodfcldc. 


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Fig.  05. 


Culverden.  Thomas  Lawrence  appears  to  have  migrated  into 
Norfolk  and  ended  his  days  at  Norwich.  A  bell-founder  of  the 
name  was  admitted  to  the  freedom  of  that  city  23rd  March, 
1541,  and  buried  Srd  December,  1545,  in  St  Stephen's  Church. 


Fit.  (•)('). 


The  only  othcv  mark  on  the  Kingston  tenor  is  a  fleur-de-Jis 
in  an  inverted  sliiold  (fig.  6G),  the  inversion  very  possibly  denot- 
ing a  desire  to  a  .  oid  collision  with  heralds,  who  (according  to 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Favine)  fined  heavily  those  tradesmen  who  presumed  to  place 
their  marks  within  shields  instead  of  targets.  Mr  Owen  directs 
my  attention  to  the  similarity  of  No.  6G  to  a  fleur-derlis  on  the 
clock-bell  at  Hampton  Court.  They  certainly  seem  identical, 
saving  that  the  latter  is  in  a  square.  The  cross  on  this  bell  is 
not  unlike  No.  58,  but  in  an  octagon,  and  there  are  the  initials 
T.  H.,  which  seem  to  suggest  the  Thomas  Harrys  of  the  King's 
College  ''Mundum"  Book.  Many  of  the  stamps  of  this  period 
interlace  almost  enigmatically. 

The  other  name  in  Culverden's  will  which  I  do  not  feel 
justified  in  passing  over  is  that  of  John  Tynny.  I  rather  lean 
to  identifying  him  with  John  Tonne,  of  whose  life  as  well  as 
that  of  Stephen  of  the  same  name,  probably  his  son,  we  have 
some  traces  which  illustrate  the  history  of  religious  opinion 
side  by  side  with  that  of  trade,  in  the  Tudor  period.  The  prin- 
ciples of  protection  had  extended  themselves  to  bells  by  the 
year  1483,  when  in  the  list  of  imports  prohibited  in  1  Ric.  III. 
c.  xij.  ^Ye  find  divers  articles  of  "laton,"  lavers,  which  have 
been  already  shewn  to  be  among  the  ordinary  products  of  the 
English  foundry,  and  "Champnoils,  vulgareme^  appellez  belles." 
The  law-making  class,  how^ever,  must  be  charged  with  selfish- 
ness in  the  solitary  exception,  "forprisez  haukes  belles."  En- 
couragement to  native  industry  is  important,  but  sport  to  the 
true  Briton  is  a  paramount  consideration.  The  British  leopard 
in  this  respect  has  not  changed  his  spots.  In  spite  of  protective 
statute  a  few  specimens  of  bells  from  Venlo  and  Louvain  found 
their  w^ay  into  England,  so  few  that  the  statute  seems  to  have 
done  its  work  efficiently.  But  if  the  handiwork  w^as  barred 
the  craftsman  could  enter  and  set  up  for  himself  or  seek 
employment  at  the  hands  of  master-founders.  A  foreigner  who 
really  knew  something  about  bells  would  be  an  acquisition 
in  the  establishment  of  "Danyell  Fonder,"  or  Roger  Reve, 
with  their  minds  distracted  by  their  other  business,  the  one  as 
a  vintner,  the  other  as  a  clothier.  Then  protection  takes  a 
further  step.  11  le  man  must  be  protected  as  well  as  the  master. 
And  thus  in  1523,  it  was  enacted  (14  and  15  Hen.  VIII.  c. 
ij.)  that  no  alien  should  take  an  alien  apprentice,  nor  keep 
more  than  tv  >  alien  journeymen.    Foreign  craftsmen  of  all 


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kinds  in  the  metropolis  were  sharply  looked  after,  inchidiiig  of 
course  founders,  the  statute  proceeding  in  these  terms  : — 

"And  that  the  Wardens  of  the  said  Oitie  of  ev'y  such 
handye  crafte,  with  one  straunger  or  housholder  as  is  aforesaid 
of  the  same  crafte,  haVe  full  power  and  auctorite  by  this  p'sont 

Fig.  67. 


acte  to  lymytte  and  appoynt  to  ev'y  straunger  of  tlic  mystery 
and  handy  crafts;  t'uat  they  be  inhabityng  Avithyn  the  said  Citie 
Suburbes  places  or  pcyncte  above  remembred  a  pper  markc 
without  takyug  r.ny  thyng  therfor,  by  the  which  their  wares 
vesselles  and  work  uianshippes  that  they  make  may  be  knowen." 


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However,  whether  John  Tonne  was  employed  in  Culverden's 
foundry,  or  in  whatever  way  he  managed  to  get  into  the  king- 
dom, we  find  him  casting  in  Sussex  as  early  as  1522,  tlie  year 
before  Culverden's  death  (which  coincides  curiously  with  the 
year  of  the  statute),  when  he  made  the  treble  at  Snllington\ 
In  1536  he  cast  the*  first  three  at  Botolph  in  the  same  county, 
and  in  1540  he  is  at  Stanstead  Mountfitchet  in  Essex.  About 
the  same  time,  probably,  he  cast  the  only  specimen  of  his  work 
which  we  liave  in  Cambridgeshire,  a  beautiful  and  interesting 
bell,  the  4th  at  Balsham.  His  ornamentation  is  thoroughly 
continental  in  its  character,  the  bells  bearing  a  large  cross 
(fig.  67)  on  the  waist,  together  with  the  Royal  Arms,  busts  of 
Henry  VIII.,  medallions,  coins  and  other  devices,  of  which  the 


Fig.  68.  Fig.  69.  Fig.  70. 


annexed  (figs.  68,  69,  70)  occur  on  the  Balsham  bell.  Mr  A.  D. 
Tyssen,  Avho  has  examined  several  bells  in  Picardy,  and  whose 
experience  is  hardly  inferior  to  that  of  any  man,  gives  me  the 
following:  five  reasons  for  considerinof  John  Tonne  a  foreiirner: 
(1)  his  habit  of  occasionally  dating  his  bells ;  (2)  of  putting  his 
name  on  tbem;  (3)  of  putting  a  cross  on  the  waist  witli  his 
name  beneath,  which  is  the  regular  practice  abroad  ;  (4)  the 
nature  of  his  name — Tonne,  Tonni,  Tony — being  derived  from 
Antoine  ;  (5)  the  French  character  of  his  lettering.  I  may  add 
that  his  inscriptions  vary  a  good  deal  from  the  received  English 
formulcB.  Tli<'  Balsham  bell  indeed  is  inscribed  ^  SntOUnt  . 
<B  ttliS  .  ITo.V  .  (ICninpnna  ,  i^ltfcljnc! is,  which  is  also  found  on 
a  mediaeval  bell,  bearing  Henry  Jurden's  stamps,  at  Bramfield, 

^  Tyssen's  Church  Bells  of  Sussex,  p.  16. 


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Suffolk,  and  on  the  tenor  at  Angersleigh,  Somerset,  witli  pre- 
sumably London  stamps.  But  elsewhere  we  have  »J*  in  Utultl'S 
nnni'S  Campana  tiaptl'Ste  fofjanm'S  and  other  abnormal  forms, 
recorded  in  the  Church  Bells  of  Sussex.    I  must  call  attention 

to  two  of  these  ^  birgmis  assuptc  nomcn  pro       man'c,  and 

>h  ®  SanCtC  Stcpjane.  We  have  already  seen  the  doctrine  of 
the  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  on  William  de  Norwyco's  bell 
(the  2nd)  at  Conington.  We  shall  see  it  again  in  a  remarkable 
Avay  when  we  come  to  the  Elizabethan  bells. 

One  instance  of  a  Louvain  bell  is  found  in  Cambrids'e,  the 
little  Hall  bell  at  Peterhouse,  inscribed,  peeter  vanden  ghein 
HEFT  MI  ghegoten  mdxlvii.  I  am  unable  to  give  much  detail 
as  to  the  history  of  this  foundry;  but  perhaps  Mr  Haweis,  for 
whom  no  corner  of  the  fusorial  world  has  more  potent  charms 
than  those  of  Louvain,  will  take  up  the  story.  We  have  few 
of  their  bells,  but  a  good  many  of  their  bell-metal  mortars. 
The  Peter  Vanden  Ghein  mentioned  above  appears  to  have 
been  followed  by  Jan  Vanden  Ghein,  who  made  in  1558  a 
mortar,  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr  Fitch  of  Norwich ;  Jan  is 
succeeded  by  anotlier  Peter,  the  Petrvs  Gheinevs  wlio  made  the 
hacd-bell  of  tlie  Corporation  of  Kye  in  15G5,  and  in  1580  a 
mortar  which  I  saw  at  Bu.ugay. 

Before  we  come  to  the  post-Reformation  bells  there  yet 
remains  Austeu  Bracker,  whose  elegant  initial  cross  (fig.  71) 


Fig.  71.  rig-  72. 


is  here  given,  to^.  ihcr  with  the  letter  ^  as  a  specimen  of  his 
lettering  (fig.  72).  1  le  is  a  perplexing  character,  for  his  compara- 
tively late  date  would  not  have  been  inferred  from  his  orna- 
mentation.   Only   n^n  of  liis  bells  have  been  ns  yet  discovered, 

4—2 


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THE  CIIUI^CH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESTIirvE. 


four  in  Norfolk,  the  two  at  Islington,  the  3rd  at  Shoaldhani, 
and  the  clock-bell  at  Long^  Stratton ;  one  in  Leicestershire,  the 
treble  at  Catthorpe  ;  and  two  in  Cambridgeshire,  tlie  tenor  at 
Harston,  and  the  Srd  at  Newton.  Mr  Ellacombe^  calls  him  a 
London  fonuder,  in  which  view  he  has  been  follow^ed  by  Mr 
L'Estrange^  and  with  a  little  misgiving  by  Mr  Norths  There 
appears,  however,  to  be  no  evidence  to  connect  Austen  Bracker 
with  the  metropolis,  and  the  locality  is  decidedly  against  such 
a  presumpti(m.  Pei'liaps  the  idea  arose  from  the  welhknown 
London  crosses  (figs.  25  and  2G)  beiog  assigned  to  him  by. 
mistake,  as  from  the  three  bells  at  Woolborougli,  Devonshire. 
His  date  is  recovered  from  one  of  the  Islington  bells,  which  is 
inscribed  +  FOR  the  yere  of  ovr  lord  god  xdlvi,  which 
can  only  be  interpreted  to  mean  1556.  The  combination  of 
Christian  and  surname  in  his  case  is  so  peculiar  that  I  cannot 
be  very  far  wrong  in  supposing  a  man  bearing  the  s<anie  names 
in  the  next  century  to  be  his  descendant.  To  him  refer  the 
following  extracts  from  the  register  at  Crowhmd,  Lincolnshire: — 

1639.  Judeth  the  daiigli'ter  of  Austiiic  Bracker  and  florence  liis  wile  wns 

]>uried  i\larcli  3. 

1640.  John  and  Elizabetli  the  son  and  daughter  of  Augustine  Tjracker 

and  Florence  his  wife  was  baptized  Siher  8. 
ViX  Agustin  Bracker  Clarke  tlie  13  day  Jan.  (buried). 

The  clerical  Bracker  of  the  Stuart  period  w^as  probably  a 
m.ore  learned  man  than  his  ancestor,  who  as  often  as  not  puts 
the  inscriptions  on  his  bells  backwards.  That  the  bell-founder 
was  not  a  follower  of  the  Beformation  may  be  inferred  from  the 
name  of  St  Catherine  on  the  Catthorpe  treble.  As  if  to  cross 
the  evidence  as  to  his  date  he  gives  us  on  the  Shouldham  Srd 
two  shields  bearing  the  three  lions  of  the  earlier  Blantagenet 
kings,  and  tw^o  bearing  the  Yorkist  rose-en-soleil. 

"While  speaking  of  the  mediaeval  bells  yet  existing  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire, I  must  not  forget  to  touch  upon  a  few  that  have 
passed  away.  The  Bood-screens  in  Abbey  Churches,  and  pro- 
bably in  many  others,  possessed,  a  tiny  ring  of  bells  about  the 
size  of  comnii-n  ]iouse-beils.    Thus  Jocelin  of  Brakelond  de- 

^  Glmrch  Bells  of  Devon,  p.  27.         ^  Church  Bells  of  Norfolk,  p.  50. 
^  Church  Belli  of  Leicestershire,  p.  77. 


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scribes  the  reception  of  Abbot  Sampson  de  Tottington,  at  Bury 
St  Edmund's,  to  Lave  been  with  rino-ino;  of  bells  within  and 
wdthout  the  choir.  In  some  cases  such  bells  were  used  for  the 
purpose  of  a  Sacriug  bell,  which  was  rung  shortly  before  the 
Elevation  in  the  Mass  office,  to  draw^  the  attention  of  the  people 
to  that  ceremony.  When  the  Inventories  of  Church  furniture 
appertaining  to  Cambridgeshire  parishes  come  to  be  examined, 
no  doubt  plenty  of  ''sacryug  belles"  will  be  found  recorded. 

Only  one  Sanctus  bell  that  I  know  of  remains  in  this 
count}^,  at  Over,  though  there  are  cots  (or  traces  of  cots)  for 
them  on  the  clerestory  gables  of  the  churches  of  Papworth  St 
Everard,  March,  Wisbech  St  Peter  and  Wisbech  St  Mary,  and 
the  small  bells  yet  remaining  as  "  Ting-tangs,"  may  be  regarded 
as  Sance  bells  either  in  tlieii'  original  condition  or  recast. 

1  cannot  satisfy  myself  with  a  distinction  between  the  Sacring 
bell  and  the  Sanctus  bell,  nnless  it  be  that  the  former  was  inside, 
and  the  latter  outside  the  building.  The  Ter-Saactus  (from 
which  the  Sanctus  or  Sance  bell  undoubtedly  takes  its  name)  is 
so  close  before  the  "  Canon "  in  the  Mass  Service  that  there 
would  hardly  be  time,  much  less  occasion,  for  a  second  ringing 
between  the  two.  The  only  Inventories  which  I  liave  seen  in 
tlie  county  bear  out  the  view  that  the  Sacring  and  Sanctus 
bells  were  different  things.  At  Tydd  St  Giles's  w^e  have : 
"Item,  in  the  steeple  ttiree  great  Bolls.  Item,  another  little 
bell  standing  on  the  ground,  and  a  Sanctis  belP."  Here,  the 
little  bell  standing  on  the  ground"  would  be  the  Sacring  bell, 
dislodged  from  its  place  in  the  choir.  The  list  at  Wbittlesea 
St  Mary's  is  more  extensive:  ''Item  in  the  steaple  iij  great 
bells  a  Sanctus  bell  and  ij  handbells  and  a  Sacrey  belli" 

In  text  B  of  Canon  Simmons's  Edition  of  the  Laij-folhs 
Mass-hook,  whicli  he  regards  as  written  c.  1375,  the  practice  of 
ringing  a  small  bell  at  this  part  of  the  service  is  referred  to  as 
a  known  custom  : 

"  A  litel  belle  men  oyse  to  ryng. 
]5en  shall  j^ou  do  reuerence 
to  iliesu  ciist  awen  presence.' 

^  Ex.  inf.  Rev.    .  Cliaiiton. 

2  Sweeting,  Fai    h  C']iuirli''s  in  iltp  iieifiJjhourJicixI  of  Pel,  rJ'oroinih,  ]\  lOO. 


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In  a  note  on  p.  272  the  Canon  says  "At  tlie  Sanctus  it' became 
the  custom  in  this  country,  from  the  thirteenth  century  onward 
at  pubhc  masses  at  the  high  altar  (capitular,  conventual,  or 
parish,  as  the  case  might  be)  to  ring  a  bell,  often  hung  in  a  bell- 
cote  above  the  chancel  arch,  which  was  called  the  Sanctus  bell 
or  sance  bell,  in  order  to  give  notice  to  those  who  were  unable 
to  be  present,  that  the  canon,  or  sacring,  was  about  to  begin." 
This  practice  is  the  subject  of  Becon's  animadversion  in  his 
Displaying  of  the  Popish  Mass: — While  ye  are  thus  blessing, 
the  boy,  or  parish  clerk,  ring  {sic)  the  little  sacring  bell,  which 
biddeth  the  people  lay  all  things  aside  now\"  &c. 

The  Sai:icc  bell,  however,  clearly  became  used  for  other  pur- 
poses, and  principally  as  a  "  priest's  bell "  to  call  not  only  the 
priest  himself,  but  also  the  people  into  church,  and  settle  them 
down  quietly  for  service.  This  manner  of  practice  yet  remains 
in  many  places  in  unbroken  use  since  the  Middle  Ages.  A  bell 
■of  this  character  at  Clapton-in-Gordano,  Somerset,  is  inscribed: 

+  SIGNIS,  CESSANDIS  ET  SERVIS  CLAMO  CIBANDIS, 

and  was  the  subject  of  correspondence  in  JS'otes  and  Queries, 
1855.  The  inscription  is  of  great  importance  in  indicating  the 
provision  made  for  the  instruction  of  servants,  apprentices,  and 
(jther  young  folk  before  the  Eeformation,  the  counterpart  of  our 
later  Sunday  afternoon  catechizing.  Mr  Ellacombe  in  his  re- 
marks on  this  bell,  refers  to  the  Durham  practice  of  preaching  on 
Sunday  afternoons  in  the  galilee,  from  one  to  three  o'clock,  and' 
quotes  Dr  Rock,  who  says  that  "  what  used  to  be  the  practice  at 
Durham,  used  to  be  followed  in  most  parish  Churches,  and  some 
kind  or  other  of  instruction  was  every  Sunday  given  in  the 
afternoon.  To  warn  the  parish  of  the  sermon  time  a  bell  was 
rung,  perhaps  in  the  country  at  twelve  o'clock,  perhaps  in  the 
towm  at  one  o'clock^.  The  first  ringing  was  on  the  Signa,  or 
large  bells;  the  last  quarter  of  an  hour's  ringing  was  on  the 
smaller  bel],  the  sancte  bell;  and  as  the  instruction  was  calcu- 

^  Bccon,  (rurkcr  Society),  Prayers,  etc.,  p.  2G6. 

2  At  Mildenhi'.i'.  border  parish,  tlie  2iid  bell,  the  original  treble,  used  to  be 
thus  rung  at  sevt  ii  in  the  morning  and  one  in  the  afternoon,  except  on  "  Sacra- 
ment Sunday  "  niornir\gs,  when  there  was  no  Sermon.  I  have  rung  it  myself 
many  a  time,  when  aiy  father  was  Curate  of  the  parish. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRTDGESHIRK. 


lated  to  be  for  the  poor,  for  servants,  for  those  particular!}'  set 
at  liberty  from  their  household  duties,  after  tlieir  master's  meal 
of  the  day  was  over,  very  properly  was  the  instruction  called 
ghostly  food,  with  which  these  poor  servants  were  to  be  fed. 
Hence  of  what  is  called  the  ting-tang  was  it  said,  'servis  clamu 
cibandis^'." 

In  accordance  with  this  explanation  Harding  in  his  con- 
troversy with  Jewel  writes:  ''And  for  that  purpose  we  have 
commonly  seen  the  priest,,  when  he  sped  him  to  say  his  service 
to  ring  the  saunce  bell  and  speak  out  aloud  '  Pater  noster ' ;  by 
which  token  the  people  were  commanded  silence,  reverence, 
and  devotion." 

To  which  Jewel  replies:  "The  deacons  in  St  Chrysostom's 
and  Basil's  time  used  to  call  upon  the  people  with  these  Avords  : 
Or  emus ;  Attend  amus ;  'Let  us  pray;'  'Let  us  give  ear:'  like 
as  also  the  priest  in  the  heathen  sacrifices  was  wont  to  command 
silence,  and  to  say  to  the  multitude,  Favete  Unguis.  This  was 
done  in  the  church  of  Christ,  as  St  Cyprian  saith,  to  put  the 
people  in  remembrance  that  in  their  prayer  they  should  think 
of  nothing  else  but  only  of  the  Lord.  And  therefore  Chrysos- 
tom  saith  :  '  The  priest  in  the  holy  ministration  speaketh  unto 
the  peo])le,  and  the  people  unto  the  priest.'  But  M.  Harding 
for  ease  and  expedition,  hath  devised  a  shorter  way,  to  teach 
the  people  by  a  bell-rope.  He  turned  his  back  unto  his 
brethren,  and  speaketh  out  two  words  aloud  Pater  noder; 
and  causeth  the  '  sanctus '  bell  to  play  the  part -of  a  deacon, 
to  put  the  people  in  remembrance  that  they  must  pray  ^" 

Of  the  bells  of  most  of  our  ruined  churches  I  have  no  record. 
All  Saints  in  the  Castle,  St  John,  the  chapel  of  St  Edmund,  the 
church  of  St  Peter  without  Trumpington  gate,  Clopton,  and 
Childerley,  have  left  us  only  their  names.  I  know  not  whether 
the  old  church  at  Ashley  had  a  tower;  the  few  grey  masses  of 
masonry  that  remain  do  not  seem  to  indicate  anything  beyond 
a  single  chapel,  most  likely  with  a  bell-cot  in  the  western 
gable.    The  ruins  of  the  incorporated  parish  of  Silverley  com- 

1  Church  Bdls  of  Somerset,  pp.  IG,  17. 

2  Jewel  (""'arker  Society)  Sermon  and  Harding,  p.  292. 


i 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


prise  a  fine  square  tower,  from  which  the  bells  have  long  dis- 
appeared. But  Blomefield  has  preserved  us  something  from 
"  Swaffham  St  Ciric": — "It  hath  a  large  tower,"  says  he, 
"square  below  and  octogonal  (sic)  at  top,  with  three  bells  in  it, 
on  one  of  which  is  the  name  maria."  From  the  same  authority 
we  find  that  Fulbourj^,  St  Vigor's  had  "  two  large  Bells  and  a 
Saint's  bell,  on  which,  jesus  nazarenus  rex  judeorvm.  cam- 
PANA  sANCTi  viGORis  S^aiuta  .^HiJua  .^postok  ova  pvo  notii's." 

Cambridge  St  Giles's  forinerly  possessed  five  bells,  of  which 
I  subjoin  Bowtell's  account: — "A  clochard  shed,  or  tower  of 
timber,  was  detached  in  the  yard  a  little  distance  from  the 
south-west  end  of  the  church,  a  long  time  supplied  the  place  of 
a  tower,  and  contained  two  bells.  This  was  taken  down  in 
March,  179G,  together  with  ye  two  bells,  which  bare  the  follow- 
ing inscriptions  : — 

I.    Omnia  fiant  ad  gloriam  Dei,  1G29. 
■    II.    Cvm  Cano  bvsta  mori  cvm  pvlpita  Vivere  desi,  1629." 

"  Formerly  there  were  three  others.  On  the  smallest  was 
Cum  voco  venite.  On  the  next,  Sonitus  Egidii  accendit  ad 
C.almina  Celi.  On  the  largest,  O.  VIRGO.  viRdiNUM.  OKA.  PRO. 
NOBIS.  Ar>.  DO^iiNUM.  On  the  skirt  of  this  bell  was  represented 
a  woman's  head  surrounded  by  scintillations  or  radiant  lialos, 
chcU-acteristic  of  the  Virgin  l^Lary.  Towards  the  crown  of  the 
bell  were  shown  five  toounds,  hleading  hearts,  ^pomegranates  and 
lillies  in  a  pot ;  the  usual  accompanyment  of  the  Virgin  at  her 
salutation \"  Bowtell's  information  as  to  these  throe  bells  is 
derived  from  a  MS.  by  Charles  Mason,  D.D.,  formerly  Fellow  of 
Trinity  and  Woodwardian  Professor,  a  great  ringer  and  bell- 
hunter.  He  adds,  "When  the  old  frame  was  taken  down  in 
1796,  I  observed  that  it  consisted  of  five  compartments,  for  the 
reception  of  so  many  bells."  Only  the  second  of  the  two  bells 
existing  in  Bowtell's  time  remains.  The  inscription  is  very 
illegible ;  but  Bowtell,  who  is  as  accurate  as  Blomefield  is  in- 
accurate, is  right  in  eveiything,  but  the  date,  which  is  1622, 
and  the  word  "  vivere,"  which  is  "vevere"  on  the  bell.  The 
same  inscriptioLi  occurs  on  the  Trumpington  tenor.  Tlie  true 
reading,  common  enough  elsewhere,  is  Gum  cano  htista  mort, 
i  J3owteirs  .1/,S'.,  ui.  775. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBraDGESHIRE.  o7 

cum  p'ulpita,  vivere  disce,  or,  in  plain  English,  "When  I  ring  for 
death  learn  to  die,  when  I  ring  for  service  learn  to  live."  The 
same  thing  is  more  neatly  expressed -in  a  pentameter  on  bells 
at  Diddington,  Hunts,  and  Little  Abington,  in  this  county. 
Disce  mori  nostro  vivere  disce  sono. 

At  St  Clement's  was  another  instance  of  these  'clochards,' 
as  Bowtell  calls  them. 

Tlie  clochard  at  King's  College  claims  special  notice.  Our 
woodcut  (fig.  73)  is  completed  from  Loggan,  who  only  gives 


Fig.  73. 


the  south-east  view  of  the  structure.  We  have  ventured  to 
supply  struts  for  the  west  side,  concluding  that  it  would  be 
in  at  least  as  dil;i]M dated  condition  as  the  other ^  In  all  pro- 
bability our  engraving  represents  the  original  structure  of  14(3G, 

1  Tliis  is  justified  hy.;\n  item  from  the  Mundum  Book  for  1G59 — 00.  "  Sol' 
wisdome  pictori  pro  pinj/*  ulis  suft'ulcimentis  circa  Cumpauilc  positis." 


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in  which  year  the  bells  as  improved  by  Henry  Jurden  were 
hung^ ;  and  they  could  not  well  have  been  hung  in  an  open 
frame.  The  leaden  roof  was  repaired  in  1605-6,  and  the  upper 
chamber  is  called  ''le  bell  soller  "  in  1603-4.  Mr  Clark  notes 
this  as  a  very  late  employment  of  the  word  :  but  it  was  in 
common  use  in  WeSt  Suffolk  in  my  boyhood.  By  1660  the 
clochard  had  to  be  propped  up,  and  after  the  lapse  of  about 
eighty  years  it  was  past  doctoring.  The  removal  of  tlie  belfry 
in  1739  and  the  migration  of  the  bells  to  the  Ante-chapel  are 
recorded  by  Mr  Clark,  as  well  as  the  sale  of  them  to  Messrs 
Lester  and  Pack,  of  Whitecliapel,  in  1754.  Enquiry  was  made 
about  their  fate  in  Notes  and  Queries  this  j^ear ;  but  from  what 
has  been  said  it  would  seem  hardly  possible  that  they  can  be  in 
existence.  I  wrote  to  Mr  Stainbank,  the  present  representative 
of  the  AVhitechapel  foundry,  who  kindly  gave  me  a  prompt 
reply  to  the  following  effect: — "We  have  none  of  the  books 
connected  with  this  foundry  prior  to  1843,  and  have  no  means 
of  knowing  whether  the  bells  from  King's  College  were  sold  or 
melted  down  ;  if  they  were  cracked  they  would  be  certain  to  go 
into  the  furnace.'' 

The  correspondence  in  Xotes  and  Queries  drew  forth  a 
pretty  old  family  letter,  from  which  it  appears  that  the  "Bell 
House"  was  down  by  Michaelmas,  1739. 

.  ''September  29,  1739. 

Honoured  Sir, 

By  help  of  a  good  horse,  pretty  good  roads  and 
very  good  company  I  got  safe  to  Cambridge  and  am  very  well  as  I  hope 
you  all  continue  to  be.  I  have  enclosed  the  sum  of  my  last  Qrs.  expenses 
— pray  give  the  enclosed  letter  to  my  sister  Bell.  We  have  pulled  down 
the  old  Bell  House  that  stood  in  our  Chapel  yard  and  hope  to  sell  the  bells 
soon. 

I  am  Sir  your  dutyfuU 

and  obedient  Son, 

To  John  Plumptre  Esq.  SEPTIMIUS  I'LUMPTKE. 

Member  of  Parliament 
at  Nottingham. 
By  Caxton  Buy-." 

^  "Item  sol'  i-artare  pro  suspensione  Campanarum  erga  festani  assnmpcionis 
beate  Marie."    ]\huKlum  Boole,  (quoted  iu  Camb.  Aiitiq.  Soc,  Coiinn.  No.  xxi. 
2  Notes  and  Qv  Ties,  Jan.  15,  1881. 


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50 


Among  other  departed  bells,  Bowtell  has  preserved  the 
inscriptions  of  three  from  the  Holy  Sepulchre  (the  present  bell 
being  the  old  fourth): — "  1.  ROBARD  gvrney  mad  me.  1G63. 

2  and  3.  DE  BVRI  SANTI  EDMONDI  STEFANVS  TONNI  me  FECIT. 

w.  L.  1576\"  and  Blomefield,  two  of  the  old  three  at  Tever- 
sliam:— Srancta  Bntcn'na  'orn  pro  nobis.  S^nncta  illarfa  ova 
pro  nobl's^,  and  one  at  Cherry  Hinton  (4th),  lately  recast  by 
Messrs  Taylor,  of  Loughborough  : — (2Dum  ^Bsahui'S  JJmiU  ntS 
iDomtnum^  a  conthmation  of  the  ^S^^^^^^^^^f  "BcO-.-on  the  3rd. 

How  Sturbridge  chapel  was  off  for  bells  before  154G  I  know 
not,  but  in  that  year  the  town  paid 

"  To  George  Eaye  for  taking  downe  the  boll  at  the  hermitage,  ijV/,  . 
Item,  to  Jeniugs  the  carpenter  for  making  a  new  yocke  to  the  belle  that 
was  at  the  Armitage,  and  for  his  paynes,  iji". 

Item,  for  hanging  up  the  bell  at  the  chapell  &  for  fetching  a  ladder,  ijd 
Item,  for  a  rope  for  the  same  bell,  ijc^.-*'' 

This  too,  has  gone  the  way  of  the  King's  bells.  There  were 
two  hermitacres  in  Cambrido-e.  The  one  alluded  to  is  most 
likely  that  at  the  Small  Bridges,  where  there  was  a  chapel 
licensed  for  divine  worship  by  Bishop  Fordham,  in  139G"l 
These  items  occur  in  tlie  town  rentals  concerning  Sturbridge 
fair ;  and  the  necessity  of  a  bell  for  the  chapel  might  arise  from 
the  town  •  disbursing  to  a  prieste  for  saying  Masse  in  the 
Chappell  the  faier  tyme,  iiijs.*^"  However,  let  us  not  linger 
among  ghosts  of  defunct  bells,  but  bend  our  steps  by  degrees  to 
things  that  are. 

A  few  usages  of  the  Middle  Ages  must  delay  us  a  while. 
That  the  curfew,  probably  the  Bene't  bell,  was  regularly  rung 
in  Cambridge  appears  from  a  proclamation  (preserved  in  the 
Corporation  Crown-Book),  which  was  made  annually  about  tho 
middle  of  the  15th  century  : — 

"We  comamiden  that    no  manor  of  mann  or  woman  hold 

his  doer  open  after  curfew  belle  be  rongen,  for  drede  of  Aspyers  i^tondN'ng 
therin,  waytyng  man  !•  >v  to  betyn  or  to  slen,  or  for  other  peryl  that  myght 
falls  thereof  7." 


1  MS.,v.  1033.  2  Collect.  Cant.,  p.  181.  Id.,  p.  2. 

4  Cooper's  Annals  of  dmhridge,  i,  110,^111.      i,  113.    "  i,  110.    '  JOG. 


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The  followincj  curious  notice  of  Indulc^ences  o-ranted  at  the 
"  hallowiug  "  of  bells  is  not  to  be  passed  by  : — 

"  At  Gamliiigca,  Cambridgeshire,  indulgences  were  frequently  granted  to 
such  as  paid  their  adoration  to  the  image  of  S.  Lawrence,  which  stood 
in  the  south  transept.  .And  on  May  3,  1490,  John',  Bishop  of  Ely, 
consecrated  one  large  b,ell  in  honour  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  S.  Nicholas  the 
Confessor ;  and  granted  forty  days'  indulgence  to  all  truly  penitent,  who, 
at  the  sound  of  the  great  bell  shall  say  five  PATERNOSTERS,  and  five 
SALUT.  ANGEL,  for  the  good  state  of  the  universal  Church,  for  the 
Bishop  Consecrating,  the  King,  the  Queen,  and  all  the  souls  of  the 
faithful  departed  this  life ;  and  to  all  who,  at  the  sound  of  the  little  bell, 
shall  say  five  SALUT.  ANGEL.  AD  CLAUS.  ADJUNCT.  'God 
have  mercy  of  John  Bishop  of  Ely,  that  liallowede  the  alters  and  bells 
aforesaid,  either  seting,  standing,  lyeing,  or  kneeling-.' " 

Mr  Cooper  has  recorded  the  obiits  that  were  commemorated 
in  Cambridge,  viz  : — 

1475.  John  Erlych's^  in  the  church  of  the  Blessed  Virgii], 
near  the  Market." 

1496.    Katherine  Cooke's,  in  the  same  church. 

1502.    Alderman  Keynsham's.  BernewelL" 

William  Kentte's,  jun.,  Clerk.  S.Benedict. 

1504.    Kicliard  King's,  of  Wisbech.  Barnwell. 

1511.  John  Hessewell's,  sometime  Mayor,  and  Agnes  his 
wife.    S.  Mar}^,  near  the  Market. 

1558.    Alderman  Francke's.    Trinity  Church^ 

The  first  two  employ  a  bellman  to  go  round-the  town  to  call 
upon  the  faithful  "  to  pray  for  the  souls  before  recited."  The 
remuneration  for  this  "labour"  was  \\]d.    The  others  are  con- 

1  Alcock. 

2  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  Ixxiii,  p.  714,  ciuoted  by  Ellacombc,  Church  Bdls  of 
Devon,  &c.,  p.  501. 

^  John  Erelich,  described  as  a  "  ^\'orshipfulle "  man,  put  his  seal  to  Dr 
Millingtou's  aflklavit  on  the  subject  of  the  bells  and  other  property  of  King's 
College,  Cavib.  Antiq.  Soc.  Comm.  iv,  227.  There  seems  some  comiection  be- 
tween the  name  and  the  College,  John  Erlich.  of  too  late  a  date  (as  it  seems) 
to  be  the  son  of  this  man,  was  elected  from  Eton  to  King's  College,  1497,  and 
graduated  B.A.  1500 — 1.  He  was  afterwards  the  King's  receiver  for  the  County 
of  Cambridge,  nnd  was  mayor  of  the  borough  in  1511.  He  was  living  in  1585. 
His  anniversiu}-  w;:s  celebrated  at  Great  St  Mary's  by  the  Corporation  on  the- 
feast  of  St  Giles, 

^  Annals  of  d  .nhrulne,  i,  222,  246,  259,  272,  293;  ii,  143. 


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tent  with  ordinary  "knolling"  of  the  bells.  Campanarian 
kixiuies  in  obiits  ^Yere  but  sparingly  indulged  in  at  Cambridge. 
At  Bury  St  Edmund's,  the  "Sexteyn"  was  instructed  to  "do 
the  chymes  smythe  Eequiem  Eternam,"  and  other  elaborate 
orders  are  given,  of  which  a  fine  specimen  may  be  seen  in  the 
will  of  John  Baret,  who  died  in  1463 \  though  all  of  that  town 
were  not  like-minded,  for  John  Coote  "will  neyther  ryngyn  nor 
belman  goynge,"  but  his  almsgivings  and  dinners  on  his  thirty- 
day  "to  be  don  in  secret  manner."  Let  us  picture  to  ourselves 
Cambridge  as  it  was  three  or  four  centuries  ago — some  of  its 
noble  buildings  unfinished,  and  most  of  the  others  smothered 
in  its  close  streets  and  courts — market  day  perhaps — manciples 
and  country  folk  squabbling  over  chickens  and  butter — Bilney 
and  Latimer  discoursing  in  the  "  heretics'  walk,"  and  preparing 
for  the  greatest  Ecclesiastical  Revolution  which  England  has 
seen — "Clerks"  wrangling  in  pairs  whilst  whetting  their  appe- 
tite for  their  "sorry  supper  at  five  of  the  clock,"  when  round- 
comes  the  bellman,  and  after  the  preliminary  ringing,  we  hear 
"  Of  your  charity  pray  for  the  souls  of  John  Cooke  and  William 
Colles,  and  Katherine,  Joan  and  Lucy  their  wives."  ^ 

In  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  we  come  to  a  period  which 
gives  surer  detail  of  the  history  of  our  foundries.  And  first,  of 
the  Bury  foundry,  which  we  have  already  found  patronized  by 
the  parish  authorities  of  St  Mary-the-Great. 

Stefanvs  Tonni  of  Bury  St  Edmund's,  whom  I  take  to  be  a 
son  of  John  Tonne,  and  whose  earliest  discovered  date  is  1559 ^ 
cast  several  bells  in  the  county.  Two  have  disappeared  from 
the  Bound  Church.  Among  those  that  remain  are  Landbeach 
tenor  (1577),  Wicken  4th  (1582),  Stetchwwth  tenor  (1564), 
Little  Wilbraham  1st  and  2nd,  and  Cambridge  St  Edward's  4th 
(1576),  and  particularly  the  4th  and  tenor  at  Wood  Ditton 
(1588). 

A  well-known  mark  of  Stephen  Tonni's  is  the  Crown-and- 
arrows,  the  emblem  of  St  Edmund  (fig.  74),  which  appears  on 

1  Tymms's  WilJs  tru!  Inventories  from  the  Registers  of  the  Commissary  of 
Bury  St  Edmund''s  and  the  Archdeaconry  of  Sudbury,  p.  28. 
^  Cooper's  Annals  of  Cmnbridge,  p.  246. 
3  Church  Bells  of  Nor  ollc,  p.  Gt. 


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the  Landbeach  tenor,  aTid  elsewhere.  He  also  uses  a  fleur-de-lis 
(fig.  75).    The  initials  W.  L.  occur  on  the  4th  bells  at  Wicken 


and  Cambridge  St  Edward.  They  are,  probably,  those  of  William 
Land  (a  foreman  perhaps  of  Tonni's),  who,  in  1G24,  cast  the 
bell  in  the  principal  gateway  at  St  John's  College,  and  who  is 
supposed  by  Mr  L'Estrange  to  have  gone  to  Colchester. 

The  following  extract  from  the  parish  book  of  St  Michael's, 
Cambridge,  for  the  year  1569,  carries  us  so  close  to  Bury  St 
Edmund's  that  it  seems  likely  that  the  old  bells  in  that  church 
before  1625  must  have  borne  the  name  of  Stephen  Tonni 
.amoniist  them  : 

o 

"  It'  payd  for  a  ball  deryke  for  a  boll  vij(7. 

It'  payde  to  good  man  Ewyns  off  horynger  for  a  bell  whell  vij.*?. 

It'  payd  to  the  sayd  good  man  Ewyns  for  raysynge  of  the 

sayd  bell  for  to  make  sur  the  goynge  off  the  sayd  bell  xd. 

It'  ]>;iyd  to  good  man  Raye  the  .smytlic  for  maykyno  of  a 

new  boulltc  of  oyern  and  viij  wcgges  for  tlio  saydc  boll  \jd. 

It'  payd  for  nalles  uL 

It'  for  a  new  rope  for  the  same  bell  x(/. 

It' for  brede  and  drynke  ijc?. 

It'  for  a  Hoop  and  a  pys  of  tyniber  for  the  sayde  bell  ij<^." 

Mr  L'Estrange  speaks  of  Stephen  Tonni  as  "  behind  the 
times"  in  his  inscriptions,  and  seems  surprised  at  his  ornament- 
ing a  bell  with  a  medallion  of  the  Crucifixion  as  late  as  1559.  I 
cannot,  howexcr,  find  anything  of  Roman  doctrine  in  his  inscrip- 
tions till  t]ie  Armada  year,  1588,  the  latest  date  we  have  of 
him  ;  and  with  regard  to  ornament,  a  representation  of  the 
Crucifixion  y.  )uld  not  be  in  the  opinion  of  the  most  utter  puritan 


Fig.  74. 


Fig.  75. 


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more  ''superstitious"  than  the  arrows  and  crown  of  St  Edmund, 
Martyr  and  King,  the  East  Anglian  Sebastian.  Stephen  Tonni's 
earliest  known  inscription  is  on  the  bell  at  Reepham,  Norfolk, 
dated  1559  : 

BE  ATI  QUI  HABITAT  (sic)  IN  DOMO  TUA  DOMINR. 

The  next  (1504)  is  one  fortunately  preserved  by  a  worthy  old 
mill-wright,  who  first  set  me  bell-hunting.  It  was  on  the  tenor 
at  Cocktield,  Suffolk,  now  recast : 

"  MANE  CITVS  LECTVM  FVGE,  MOLLEM  DISCVTE  SOJINVM, 
TEMPLV  BETAS  SPE  SVPPLEX,  ET  VENERARE  DEYM." 

In  neither  of  these  is  there  any  offence,  nor  in 

FAVET  lOVA  POPVLO  SVO.  (1577) 

on  the  Landbeach  tenor,  nor  in  the  portions  of  the  Beum  at 
Oxborough,  Norfolk,  nor  in 

"  Filiiis  Virginis  Marie  dat  nobis  gaudia  vite  " 

quoted  by  Mr  L' Estranged 

But  when  we  come  to  1588  a  change  passes  over  Stephen 
Tonni's  expressions,  and  the  fourth  and  tenor  at  Wood  Ditton 
are  certainly  in  their  way  historical  monuments.  Tlie  crown 
and  arrows  disappear.  Out  come  all  John  Tonne's  beautiful 
marks,  the  great  Cross  (fig.  G7)  and  the  small  ornaments  (figs.  (58, 
69,  70).  The  name  of  the  Wood  Ditton  benefactor  2ioi)t^nncS 
prat  takes  the  place  of  the  Balsham  benefactor  n'cartibS  X'Cbbcl 
on  John  Tonne's  bell,  and  the  sands  of  time  seem  to  have  run 
back  for  the  period  of  half  a  century.  But  most  remarkable 
are  the  two  medioeval  inscriptions: 

•J*  sum  rosn  pulsata  munbi  man'a  bocata, 

and  bi'rgi'ni's  assumpte  nomen  grro  bmc  mark. 

The  first  of  these  has  not  been  found  elsewhere  on  a  post- 
Beformation  bell.  The  second  enunciates  doctrine  most  dis- 
tinctly Roman  as  opposed  to  Catholic,  and  was  used  by  John 
Tonne. 

If  we  knew  something  of  the  history  of  John  Prat  of  Wood 
Ditton  it  would,  be  a  help  to  us.    Without  tliis  help,  however, 

1  Church  ndls  of  Norfolk,  p.  GL 


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it  seeras  plain  to  me  that  Stephen  Tonni  had  been  throughout 
a  concealed  opponent  of  the  Reformation.  John  Tonne's  invo- 
cation of  St  Stephen  quoted  above ^  may  show  that  the  choice 
of  the  younger  man's  Christian  name  was  not  without  meaning, 
some  coincidence  of  time  or  circumstance,  perchance,  naming 
bell  and  boy  some  forty  or  fiity  years  back.  The  spring  of  1588 
comes,  and  destruction  seems  to  await  the  Reformation.  There 
is  no  Bishop  at  Ely,  Dr  Richard  Cox  liaving  died  in  1580,  and  the 
see  remaining  vacant  nearly  twenty  years.  Norwich  is  far  dis- 
tant, and  presided  over  by  Bishop  Scambler,  apparently  not  the 
most  energetic  of  mankind.  The  long-delayed  time  of  retribu- 
tion seems  to  be  at  hand,  and  Stephen  Tonni's  last  bells  at 
Wood  Ditton  will  be  just  in  time  to  mark  the  fall  of  Elizabeth 
and  the  Reformation.  Comes  the  first  week  of  August  and 
these  hopes  vanish,  the  traces  of  their  power  remaining  to 
many  a  generation  in  an  obscure  village  belfty.  Such  is  my 
reading  of  the  Wood  Ditton  anomaly.  Before  leaving  Stephen 
Tonni  we  may  note  his  coimection  witli  the  cloth  trade,  as  in 
the  case  of  Roger  Reve,  the  Reepham  bell  aforesaid  bearing  for 
stops  impressions  of  the  seal  of  the  Cloth  subsidy  for  the  county 
of  Suffolk. 

Sometimes,  as  at  Wattisfield,  Suffolk,  and  Halstead,  Essex, 
William  Land's  initials  occur  in  connection  with  T.  D.,  for 
Thomas  Draper.  Thomas  Draper's  foundry,  which  thus  seems  to 
have  originated  from  Bury,  was  finally  established  at  Thetford. 
He  was,  apparently,  a  man  of  substance  and  character,  and  was 
chosen  Mayor  of  the  town  in  1592,  on  which  occasion  he  pre- 
sented a  treble  to  St  Cuthbert's  church.  Two  bells  of  his  in 
Cambridgeshire,  Horningsey  2nd  (1590),  and  Stretham  treble 
(1591)  have  been  recast,  but  the  treble  at  Coton  (1581)  remains, 
bearing  a  little  lozenge  (fig.  76)  and  a  fleur-de-lis  (fig.  77). 
Another  fleur-de-lis  used  by  him,  but  not  occurring  in  the  county, 
is  engraved  in  fig.  78,  and  the  arroAVS  in  his  stamp  (fig.  79)  are 
cut  short,  as  though  to  signify  a  past  connection  with  Bury  St 
Edmund's.  His  successor,  John  Draper,  has  given  the  county 
many  good  boils.  Chippenham  2nd  and  tenor  (1601  and  1621), 
Littleport  treble,  2nd  and  3rd  (1640,  1622  and  1624),  Wicken 


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treble  (1634),  Dullingliam  3rd  and  4tli  (1G27  and  1621),  Wood 
Ditton  treble  (160S),  which  bears  a  long  inscription,  now  de- 
faced, and  originally  belonged  to  Weston  Colville,  from  which 
parish  Wood  Ditton  bought  it,  after  the  fall  of  Weston  Colville 


Fig.  7G.  Fig.  77. 


tower,  in  1825  ;  Horningsey  tenor  (1608),  Great  Shelford  tenor 
(1614),  are  all  by  John  Draper.  In  addition  to  these,  I  may 
mention  Bottisham  2nd,  and  the  tenor  at  St  Benet's,  Cam- 
bridge. There  appears  to  have  been  at  this  time  some  little 
jarring  as  to  the  ^nerits  of  different  foundries,  and  ns  news- 
paper advertisements  Avere  unknowm,  tlie  bells  had  to  puff 
their  makers.  Tho  third  in  the  last-mentioned  church  bears 
this  "  vain  talk  "  : 


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OF  ALL  THE  BELS  IN  BENNET  I  AM  THE  BEST; 
AND  YET  FOR  MY  CASTING  THE  PARISH  PAIDE  LEST, 

''Cheap  and  nasty"  truly,  for  it  is  a  wretclied  tinkler.  But 
Draper  is  not  to  be  beaten  by  this.  He  comes  out  strong  on 
the  tenor  : 

John  Draper  made  me  in  1618. 
This  bell  was  broake  and  cast  againe, 
As  plainly  doth  apeare 
Wich  time  Chvrchwardens  were 
Edwarde  Dixson  for  the  one  whoe  stode  close  by  his  tacklin, 
And  he  that  was  his  partner  then  was  Alexander  Jacklin. 

I  very  much  suspect  that  Mr  Dixson's  "tacklin"  was  intro- 
duced as  a  rhyme  to  his  partner's  name.  It  reminds  one  of 
Tom  Hood's  foxhunter,  writing  a  sonnet  and  "beating  up. the 
covers  "  for  a  rhyme  to  "  Reynard,"  Beynard,  Ceynard,  Deynard, 
&c.  The  5th  bell  at  Bene't,  which  seems  to  have  been  cast  by 
Tobie  Norris,  of  Stamford,  bears  the  more  elegant  or  less  in- 
elegant motto  :  NON  NOMEN  FERO  FICTI  SED  NOMEN  BENEDICTI. 
The  initials  of  William  Land  occur  in  connection  with  those  of 
John  Draper  on  the  ord  and  4th  bells  at  Stapleford. 

But  it  is  time  to  speak  of  our  Cambridge  founders,  though 
of  no  great  eminence,  for  ii  is  strange  how  few  of  the  Cam- 
bridgeshire bells  w^ere  made  in  the  county.  One  exists  at 
Great  Shelford,  the  treble,  on  Avhich  only  the  words  ntatfC  at 
(iDnmbritfC^C  are  found,  with  the  date  1590.  This  seems  to  be 
the  work  of  Richard  Nicholson,  whose  name  occurs  on  the  4th 
bell  at  Bottisham,  and  nowhere  else  to  my  knowledge.  He 
marks  his  bell  Avith  the  heads  already  engraved  (figs.  10  aud 
11),  which  are  supposed  to  be  those  of  Edward  I.  and  his  Queen, 
Eleanor  of  Castile.  He  corresponds  in  point  of  time  Avith 
Richard  Nicholson  of  Christ's  College,  who  matriculnto'l  llioi  e 
as  a  Sizar  in  June,  1582,  graduated  B.A.  in  1585,  am!  i  ■  ;  =  iled 
M.A.  in  1580.  "Chis  Richard  Nicholson  was  involved  in  the 
then  constant  (i's-iates  between  the  University  and  the  Town, 
having  sued  Ednumd  Hurste  and  George  Pretty  in  a  plea  of 
trespass  before  i  he  Vice-Chancellor.    How  these  individuals 


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and  others  were  brought  out  by  habeas  corpus  may  be  read 
in  Cooper's  Annals  of  Gamhridge^. 

John  AYarren,  of  St  j\Iary-the-Great,  has  left  nothing  of  his 
works  but  the  Httle  ting-tang "  in  the  tower  of  that  church, 
which  he  made  in  1607.  The  designation  of  the  bell  appears 
from  the  entry  in  thd  parish  book  '.- — 

"  Item,  paid  for  the  casting  of  the  sant's  hell,  which  waved 
55  lb.,  which  cost  3d  the  pound  in  monye  xiij\s\  ixr/. 

And  more  we  aded  15  lb.  and  a  lialfe  of  mctle,  at  viijc/,  the 
pownd,  in  monye  X5.  iiijt/.,  and  soe  the  whole  charge  of  the 
casting  of  the  bell  is  xxiij,s\ 

Item,  paid  for  a  roppe  for  the  bell  xcZ.'' 

It'  for  a  yoake  and  hanging  the  saint's  bell  iij.s-.  iiijc/. 

It  appears  to  have  marked  the  end  of  a.  great  work,  the 
completion  of  the  tower.  John  Warren,  vintner,  was  married 
in  the  church  to  Elizabeth  Smalwood,  18th  June,  1581,  and 
was  actively  engaged  in  forwarding  the  building  of  the  tower 
till  his  death,  Dec.  6th,  1608.  His  eldest  son  John  was  born 
13th  Nov.  1583,  and  is  no  doubt  "John  Warren  the  smith," 
the  maker  of  the  "  sant's  bell,"  the  father  boino-  at  the  time 
chuich warden.  The  younger  John  died  11th  Dec.  1625"^.  The 
death  of  the  father  so  soon  after  the  completion  of  the  tower 
evidently  caused  much  regret.  It  is  recorded  in  the  following- 
quaint  and  not  ungraceful  lines  on  a  tablet  in  the  clianccl  of 
the  church  : 

A  speakinge  Stone 
Reason  may  chaunce  to  blame 

But  did  it  knowe 
Those  ashes  here  doe  lie 

Which  brought  the  stones 
That  hide  the  steepls  shame 

It  would  affirme 
There  were  no  reason  why 

Stones  should  not  speake 
Before  theyr  builder  die 

1  II.  585. 

2  For  these  dates  I  am  indebted  to  the  Ecv.  H.  R.  Luard,  D.D.,  Registrary  of 
the  University  arul  Vicar  of  St  Mary-the-Grcat. 


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For  here  John  Warren 
Sleeps  amonge  the  dead 

Who  with  the  Church 
His  owne  Life  finished 

Anno  Domini  1608 
December  17. 

But  greater  works  than  Jolm  Warren's  sance-bell  began  to 
occupy  the  attention  of  the  parishioners  of  St  Mary-the-Great. 
Peals  of  five  were  now  no  unusual  thing,  as  may  -be  seen  from 
the  end  of  Udall's  Roister  Doister  and  elsewhere,  and  rino-ino- 
was  beginning  to  take  a  promineiit  place  in  national  exercises, 
to  the  distress  of  such  characters  as  Morose,  in  Ben  Jonson's 
Silent  Woman,  who  is  thus  hit  off: 

"  Tnmoit.    A  good  wag  !   How  does  he  for  the  bells  ? 

Cler.  0  !  in  the  queen's  time  he  was  wont  to  go  out  of  town  every 
Saturday  at  ten  o'clock,  or  on  hol^^day  eves.  Rut  now,  by  reason  of  the 
sickness  the  perpetuity  of  ringing  has  made  him  devise  a  room  with  double 
walls  and  treble  ceiUngs;  the  windows  close  shut  and  caulk'd  :  and  there 
lie  lives  by  candle-light." 

Cambridge  affords  a  very  eminent  instance  of  Queen 
EUzaboth's  love  for  bells.  She  entered  the  town  on  Friday,  the 
4th  of  August,  1564,  amidst  the  clanging  of  all  the  church  bells 
and  college  bells  in  the  town.  The  clochard  at  King's  could 
hardly  have  been  silent  on  the  occasion,  and  indeed  it  may 
have  helped  to  render  the  state  of  things  just  tolerable  by  the 
blending  power  of  the  boom  of  its  heavier  metal.  Considering 
that  they  were  but  a  ''scratch"  five,  and  that  there  was  not  a 
decent  peal  in  the  place,  the  noise  must  have  been  too  much  for 
many  a  "  good  wag."  There  was  no  merry  octave  to  divert  the 
ear,  little  but  the  Babel  of  those  representatives  of  C,  B,  B 
flat,  A,  and  intermediate  demi-semitones,  who  in  term  time 
still  make  morn  and  eve  hideous  by  announcing  the  concurrent 
hours  of  college  chapels.  It  would  have  driven  an  Elizabethan 
madrigal-composer  mad.  "Such  churches  as  were  negligent 
herein  were  afterw  ards  called  upon,  and  were  fined,  some  85.  4r/., 
some  more,  some  less."  St  Mary's  escaped  the  higher  penalty, 
the  churchwarden?  paying  only  "  ij,9.  Vyl.  to  the  Queen's  Almoner's 


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servant  for  not  ringing  at  the  Queen's  coming \"  There  was 
ringing  at  St  Mary's  in  1587,  "at  the  triumph,"  for  which  the 
sura  of  xijfZ.  was  given  to  the  ringers^,  quite  as  much  as  their 
performance  Avas  worth.  The  allusions  to  the  "University 
Bell"  are  frequent  on  this  and  other  occasions.  I  suppose  it  to 
have  been  one  of  the-' peal  (if  peal  it  might  be  called)  then  in 
St  Mary's  tower.  The  parish  cannot  be  said  to  have  been  before 
the  times,  but  the  original  forbell,  myddell  bell,  and  great  bell," 
which,  with  Thomas  Chirche's  tenor,  made  a  peal  of  four,  were 
to  receive  company.  It  seems,  from  Bowtell's  account,  that  the 
tenor  was  recast  in  1595,  and  the  parish  book  for  the  following 
year  notes,  "  This  yere  all  our  bells  are  rung  out  and  was 
never  before."  On  which  Bowtell  remarks  that  the  occasion 
was  probably  the  Queen's  accession,  November  17th,  "as  it 
seemeth  by  the  following  entry : — 

"Item,  pcayed  for  Ireon  worke  about  haingiug  the  bells 
against  the  Quean's  daye  x^-.  vc/." 

The  following  item  shows  that  the  work  was  only  just 
finished  in  time  : — 

"If,  Nov.  1(3,  paid  John  Dowsey  for  iij  dayes  &  half  &  his 
soune  for  iiij  dayos  abowght  yoking  of  the  greate  bell  with 
the  old  yoke,  and  drawing  of  the  three  greatest  bells  into  their 
frames  from  the  nethermost  flore  vij.s.  vjc/." 

Fifteen  years  after  this  we  find  the  following : — ■ 

"Mem'.  That  vpon  this  vj*'^  day  of  Octoljer,  1611,  the  parishoners  of 
Greete  St.  Marios  parishe,  in  Cambridg,  assembling  together  did  with  en 
assent  and  consent,  condicend  and  agree  that  the  bell-frame  should  be  re- 
payred,  and  that  the  fowre  belles  then  hanging  in  the  said  frame  should 
be  cast  into  five  tunable  belles  with  expedition,  and  for  the  htt  and  per- 
feckting  heereof  the  said  parishoners  did  then  and  theire  chouse  and  au- 
thorise ^  Henrie  Kinge,  John  Yorke,  Henrie  Cotton,  and  •'AValter  Bettson.to 
be  assistant  to  the  churchwardens  according  as  their  several  skills  in  that 
buisines  retiuireth ;  and  allso  then  and  theire  assented  that  theire  should 
be  a  leauie  mad''  ^■pon  the  said  parishoners  as  the  vse  hath  been  heereto- 
fore  in  other       kineses  for  the  said  church  for  the  perfectinge  of  the  said 

1  Cooper's  AnnaJs  of  Camhruh/e,  ii.  187.  "  Ibid.  437. 

3  Trustee  und.  i:  Dr.  Perse's  will.  *  Town  Treasurer,  IGIO. 


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workes.  Provid  :  all  waies  that  this  chargeie  concerning  the  bells  and  the 
frame  shall  not  ])e  chargable  to  the  parish  above  the  some  of  xl\7.,  which 
some  of  xlvL  is  to  be  leuied  of  the  parishoners. 

^  Philippe  Scarlette,  1  ^„  , 
1 9  T         ^  '  Churchwardens. 

^■^  James  Kobsox.  J 

3  Henrie  Mowtlowe, 

Beniamin  Hintox, 

Mychael  Woolfe, 
•^Nathanael  Cradocke,  • 

Edward  Dodson." 

From  a  memorandum  in  the  parish  book  it  appears  that  the 
whole  expense  amounted  to  £53  135.  Id.,  of  which  £14  lOs.  lOd 
was  to  be  paid  to  St  Michael's  parish  for  one  of  their  bells, 
weighing  4cwt.  1  qr.  10  lbs.  Such  borrowing  of  metal  was  not 
uncommon  in  those  times,  but  the  system  led  to  many  in- 
conveniences here  as  elscAvhere,  the  St  Michael's  authorities  in 
the  end  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  £16  10s.  4c?.,  "  in  full 
discharge  of  all  reckonings  about  our  bell,  and  the  suit  touch- 
inge  the  same."  The  bell  founder,  whoever  he  was,  received 
£18.  In  1G20  and  1021  there  appears  to  have  beeu  further 
improvement,  two  of  the  old  peal  being  recast  and  another 
added.  From  the  mention  of  St  Ives  as  the  place  of  meeting, 
[  suppose  the  founder  to  have  been  Tobias,  or  Tobie  Norris  the 
elder,  of  Stamford,  many  of  whose  bells  are  to  be  found  in  the 
town  and  neighbourhood.    The  items  are  as  foUow^s  : — 

A.  D.  1620. 

It'  paid  for  the  bell  founder's  two  bonds  ij^. 
It'  paid  for  helping  downe  the  bell  i.s\  \]d. 

It'  paid  for  a  baldrikk  for  the  new  bell  iij.s*.  \\\]J. 

A.  D.  1621. 

Item,  p"^  for  timl'cr  to  repair  the  frame,  &  for  new 
wheeles  to  the  bells  yli.   xix.9.  \]d. 

1  Committed  to  the  custody  of  the  Town  gaoler,  24  April,  1612,  by  Dr.  Goche, 
Vice-Chancellor  and  Master  of  Magdalen  College,  for  not  suffering  the  bell  of  St 
Mary's  Church  to  be  rung  for  Mr.  Waterhouse,  of  Trinity  College.  They  were 
released  on  the  same  il;',v  by  the  interference  of  their  fellow-parishioners.  MS. 
Balcer  xxxvi.  226,  quotnl  by  Cooper,  Ann.  Camh. 
■  2  Town  Treasurer,  Kill. 

One  of  the  first  rcpa'scntatives  of  the  University  in  Parliament. 
Trustee  under  Ih-  b-Tse's  will. 


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It'  to  helpers  in  taking  downe  &  hanging  vp  the  bells  xijs.  viijc/. 

It'  p"*  for  writing  the  indentures  for  the  bells  to  be 
new  cast,  and  a  bond  vppon  them  iiijs. 

It'  pd,  to  one  for  going  to  St  Ives  to  take  bond  of  the 
bell  founder  with  two  suertyes  ijs," 

The  money  was  better  managed  this  time,  the  collection  for 
the  bells  being  £48.  195.  4^d.,  and  the  expenses  £42. 14,9.  lOd.  In 
1667  two  more  bells  were  added,  probably  by  Uobard  Gurney, 
who,  in  that  year,  made  the  7th  at  St  Andrew's  before  men- 
tioned. The  ord  and  4th  also  were  recast.  Mr  King  is  paid 
his  ''charges  goeing  to  Bury  to  give  direction  for  casting  the  two 
bells,  12s.  Of/.,"  £2.  5s.  Od.  is  paid  for  carriage,  £9.  8s.  8d.  to 
the  founder  for  casting  the  3rd  and  4th.  and  in  1668,  9s.  fjr 
mending  the  7th  bell  and  the  tenor,  but  I  can  find  no  items  as 
to  the  two  new  bells.  Dr  Mason  has  recorded  the  wei^dit  of  the 
old  peal  of  eight  : 


cwt. 

qr. 

lb. 

cwt. 

qr. 

lb. 

First 

3 

2 

24 

Fifth 

7 

0 

10 

Second 

4 

1 

25 

Sixth 

9 

3 

3 

Third 

4 

3 

26 

Seventh 

14 

{) 

1 

Fourth 

(5 

U 

7 

Eighth 

18 

2 

0 

I  give  the  inscriptions  literatim  from  Bowtell's  MS.,  though  I 
must  confess  myself  utterly  at  a  loss  to  reconcile  them  with  his 
history  of  the  peal. 

"  I.    Cum  Sono,  si  non  vis  venire,  nunquam  ad  preces  cupies  ire. 

II.  0  mater  Dei,  memento  mei.  (Besides  this  inscription  there  was  a 
shield  containing  a  semee  of  Fleur-de-lis  for  France,  which  shows  it  must 
have  been  cast  before  the  year  1407,  when  the  semee  was  reduced  to  the 
miml:er  tliree.) 

III.  Celorum  Christe  placeat  tibi  Eex  sonus  iste. 

IV.  Johannes  Yorke  me  fecit  in  honorem  beate  Marie. 

V.  Intactum  Sileo,  percute  dulce  cano. 

VI.  Soli  Deo  Gloria  Pax  hominibus. 

VII.  Musica  medicina  est  molesticc  illius  qme  per  labores  suscipitur. 

VIII.  or  soul  bell.    Sum  voce  pulsata  mundi  Maria  voeata,  1595 

The  third  may  have  been  by  Francis  or  Hugh  Watts^  of 
Leicester,  probably  the  latter.  "Celorum  Christe,  &c."  is  a 
mediaeval  inscription  adopted  by  them,  and  occurs  in  its  original 


1  Bowtell's  .US'.,  VI.  2250,  etc. 


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form  on  the  tliird  at  Cossington,  and  second  at  Welliam, 
Leicestershire.    It  has  been  neatly  translated  : — 

"0  Christ,  Hecaven's  King, 
Be  pleased  with  this  Ring  ! " 

In  Alderman  Metcalfe's  Diary  appears  the  following  note  on 
the  expenses  of  this  peal : — 

"1611.  Awdetors  for  the  Accounte  of  Jeames  Robsonn  and  Phillip 
Scarlett  Churchwardens  goeing  forth  of  ther  office  in  Ester  tuesdaye  1612. 
Dockter  Mowltellowe,  Mr.  Edward  Pottoe,  Mr.  AVicksted,  Heni-ie  Gibbs, 
Antonie  Tomson,  Edmond  Jeffrie  and  Walter  IMetcalfe,  these  being  mett 
together  at  S'  Maires  abowte  the  laste  of  Aprill  1612  to  take  ther  Acownts 
for  the  parrish  goods  and  ther  receats  w*"  ther  disbiu-senients  did  hnd  that 
tlieye  had  in  ther  hands  xii^.  xixs.  id.  ob.  the  w''  the  did  Refuse  to  deliuer 
untell  theye  had  maid  ther  acounte  for  the  frayine  w''  the  Casting  of  the 
bells  whear  uppon  it  stayed  unto  Co'mensemente  sonndaye." 

Several  curious  facts  relating  to  the  old  peal  may  be  found 
in  Mr  Yenables's  Paper  on  St  Mary's  Church,  published  by  the 
Cambridge  Camden  Society. 

We  have  already  touched  upon  Tobie  Norris,  of  Stamford. 
He  was  not  a  very  first-rate  founder,  but  his  ortliodoxy  is 
beyond  all  question.  NON  SONO  animabvs  MORTVORV.^t  sed 
AYRIBVS  VIA'^ENTIYM  is  a  favourito  inscription  of  his,  and  may  be 
seen  on  the  bell  at  St  Mary's- the-Less  (1 008),  and  the  tenor  at 
All  Saints  (IGOG),  Cambridge. 

I  suppose  him  to  be  the  founder  who  cast  three  bells  for  St 
Michael's  in  1G25,  probably  at  St  Ives.  The  parish  book  gives 
the  items  :                                       ,  ' 

Now  laying  out. 

£     s.  (I. 

Layd  out  vppon  composition  to  the  bell  founder  (i      1  0 
Item,  to  Mr.  Short  for. drawing  the  covenant  with  the 
bell  founder  2  0 
It'  for  earnest  for  the  Bell  \vheel  1 
It' for  charges  att  St  Ives  about  the  bells  <i  (> 
It'  for  divers  charges  at  severall  times  to  the  bell-foun- 
der com'ing  to  towne  ^  0 
It'  for  ]ie\v  hangin-  the  bells  7  0 
■  It'  for  2  labourers  lulping  to  pull  up  the  bells  1  0 
It' for  three  key es  ibr  the  bells  4 
It'  for  bell  ropes  4 


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The  following  extracts  relating  to  the  Norris  family,  from 
tlie  Register  of  tlie  parish  of  St  George,  Stamford,  have  been 
kindly  supplied  to  me  by  Mr  Justin  Simpson,  of  that  town : 

1606.  Antony  Norris,  ye  sonne  of  Tobias  Norris,  was  baptised  y''  11th 
daye  of  January,  1606. 

1609.  Toby  Korris,  ye  sqnne  of  Toby  Norris,  was  hurried  ye  26th  day 
of  Marche,  1609. 

1612.  AVilHam  Norris,  the  sonne  of  Tobye  Norris,  was  baptised  ye  24 
of  August,  1612. 

1612.  Antlionie  Norris,  the  sonne  of  Tobias  Norris,  was  hurried  the 
3rd  day  of  January. 

1614.  Marye  Norris,  the  daugliter  of  Tobye  Norris,  was  haptised  the 
24th  day  of  September, 

1617.  Abortiua,  ye  daughter  of  Tobye  Norris,  was  hurried  ye  4th  of  Julye. 

1618.  John,  the  sonne  of  Tobye  Norris,  was  baptised  the  14th  day  of 
June. 

1620.  Frances  Norris,  the  daughter  of  Tobie  Norris,  was  haptised 
the  21  daye  of  September. 

1625.  SamueU,  the  sonne  of  Tobias  Norris,  was  hurried  the  xvth 
day  of  September. 

1628.  John  Norris,  the  sonne  of  Toby  Norris,  was  hurried  the 
eleventli  of  January. 

1634.    Aprilis  25.    Tobias  Norris,  the  son  of  Thomas  Norris,  Bel- 
founder,  was  baptized. 
,  1638.    'May  29.    John,  the  sonne  of  Thomas  Norris,  baptized. 

1655,    Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Norris,  gent.,  bur.  Oct.  3. 

1673.  .  July  28.    Edith,  wife  of  Thpmas  Norris,  bur. 

1675.    Eliz.,  dau.  of  Tobias  &  Susan  Norris,  christened  Decemb.  21. 

1677.    Mary,  dau.  of  Tobias  &  Anna  Norris,  christened  Aug.  13. 

1679.  Martha,  daught.  of  Tobias  Norris,  christened  Feb.  25. 

1680.  Mary,  dau.  of  Tobias  Norris,  bur.  June  5. 

1681.  Edw.,  sonne  of  Tobias  Norris,  gent.,  bap.  Apl.  21. 

1682.  Ann,  dau.  of  Tobias  Norris,  bap.  Nov.  4,  died  Nov.  23. 

1683.  A  son  of  Tobias  Norris,  bap,  Apl.  24. 

1687.    Mary,  dau.  of  Tobias  &  Ann  Norris,  bap.  Feb.  25. 

1690.    Mary,  daughter  of  Mr.  Tobias  &  Ann  Norris,  bur.  June  28, 

1699.    Tobias  Norris,  Bell  founder,  bur.  Jan.  19. 

The  register  contains  no  date  of  the  burial  of  Tobie  Norris 
the  elder.  A  bell-metal  plate  to  his  memory  exists  in  the 
church  of  St  Gc'<»r>jL',  bearing  the  following  inscription,  in  high 
relief : 

"  Here  lietli  the  1  )dy  of  Tobie  Norris,  Belfovn.  who  decea.  tlie  3  of 
No.-,  1626  (?)" 


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.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Thomas  Norris,  some  of  wliose 
bells  deserve  hig-h  commendation.  There  is  a  g-ood  bell  of  bis 
(1G48)  belonging  to  Ely  Trinity,  and  he  cast  the  second  at  All 
Saints,  Cambridge,  in  1G32.  The  parish  book  for  that  year 
brings  the  whole  scene  before  us. 

It.,  paid  for  a  presentment  for  the  broken  bell  0    01  05 

For  our  charges  in  going  for  a  bell  founder  0  6  0 
It.,  for  a  diner  to  the  bell  founder  when  he  tooke  mesure 

of     belles  0  3  4 

For  taking  downe  the  bell  by  Mr.  Mane  0  3  0 

For  carryedge  to  the  bridge  and  waying  0  2  G 

For  the  carryedg  of  it  by  \vat(U"  0  G  0 

It.,  for  bringing  it  bake  from  Stamford  to  the  bridge  0  G  0 

It.,  for  the  wa}-ing  it  &  bringing  from  the  water  home  0  3  0 

It.,  for  a  new  Ijalricke  0  2  G 

for  beere  at  the  hanging  of  it  0  0  G 
It.,  for  a  sup})'  to  the  bell  founder,  y''  workmen,  & 

som  p'ishinors  being  then  there  present  0  6  6 

It.,  for  mal-dng  a  bond  for  warrant  of  the  said  bell  0  0  G 

And  after  various  smaller  items  : 

It.,  for  hanging  the  newe  bell  &  mending  the  rest  of  them  0  10  8 
It.,  Faido  to  thomas  Noris  the  bell  founder  6    14  4 

There  appears  to  have  he&a  generally  a  jollification  on  such 
occasions.  In  Bungay  Trinity  parish  book,  besides  a  "dyner  at 
iijd.  heade,"  there  is  an  item  of  xijd.  to  the  bell  founder's  wife 
(Mistress  Alice  Brend),  and  the  same  sum  "to  his  manservants 
and  his  mayde." 

In  connection  with  the  parish  of  St  George,  Stamford,  are 
two  charities  in  which  the  name  of  Norris  is  frequently  men- 
tioned. The  first  is  John  Chirme's  donation  to  the  poor,  10th 
Charles  I.  In  a  deed  of  feoffment  connected  therewith,  and 
dated  16th  Sept.,  7th  James  I.  (1G09),  we  find  Tobie  Norris,  of 
Stamford,  bell-founder;  in  another,  dated  April  12t]i,  1058, 
Thomas  Norris,  of  Stanford,  gent.,  also  his  son  Toby;  in  1GG6, 
Thomas  Noi  ]  is  ;  in  1G93,  Tobias  Norris.  The  second  is  a 
conduit  for  su})plying  the  parish  with  water,  managed  by  two 
conduit-masters     In  the  list  of  mastei-s  names  of  various 


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members  of  the  Norris  family  occur  in  the  following  connec- 
tion : 

1632.  Henry  Grumball,  Tho.  Norris. 

1633.  Tlio.  Norris,  Edm.  Browne,  gent. 

1636.  William  Aslack,  Tho.  Norris. 

1637.  Tho.  Norris,  Robert  Bdll. 

1G40.    William  Waters,  Thomas  Norris. 
1641.    Thomas  Norris,  John  Goodlad. 
1687.    Nicholas  Love,  Mr.  Norris. 

In  a  deed  dated  March  29th,  1C46,  we  find  the  signature  of 
Tho.  Norris  in  company  with  those  of  '^H.  Cooke,  Min.,  Thos. 
Sherwood,  Robert  Ball,  and  Ro.  White/'  as  letting  some  land 
belonging  to  the  estate  to  Anthony  Write  (Wright),  after  the 
rate  of  sixteen  groats  an  acre,  and  also,  to  John  Steele,  for  one 
shilling  an  acre.  In  documents  relating  to  the  church  estate, 
dated  1G38,  w^e  find  the  name  of  Toby  Norris,  of  Staunford,  bell- 
founder  ;  and  in  1(359,  that  of  Thomas  Norris,  gent. 

From'  October  20th,  1613,  to  March  12th,  1614,  the  parish 
register  is  signed  by  Tobie  Norris,  as  one  of  the  Church- 
wardens. 

From  1630  to  1632,  Thomas  Norys  was  Churchwarden,  and 
spells  his  name  as  Norys  and  Norris. 

In  1656-7,  Thomas  Norris  was  raised  to  the  highest  muni- 
cipal office  in  his  native  borough,  serving  as  ''Alderman."  The 
title  of  "Mayor"  was  not  adopted  at  Stamford  till  some  3^ear3 
afterwards.  We  do  not  seem  to  have  any  bells  in  Cambridge- 
shire from  the  foundry  of  Tobie  Norris  the  younger.  Mr  Justin 
Simpson,  to  whose  kindness  I  am  indebted  for  these  notes  on  the 
Norris  family,  tells  me  that  the  Stamford  foundry  is  supposed 
to  have  been  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Gas  Works,  or  of  Mr 
Blashfield's  Terra-Cotta  Works. 

The  origin  of  the  "owl"  (fig.  80)  on  some  of  the  bells  cast 
by  Tobie  Norris  the  elder  and  Thomas  Norris,  may  be  that  this 
bird  is  the  crest  of  the  family  of  Norris,  of  Basing  Park,  in 
Hampshire — On  <'  mount  Vert,  an  owl  holdhuj  in  tlie  dexter 
daw  an  arroio,  from  the  heak  an  escroll.  We  do  not,  however, 
find  all  this  detail  on  the  bells.  The  Stamford  initial  cross  and 
a  common  stop  arc  .^iven  in  figs.  81  and  82. 


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THE  CHracH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Fi<r.  80. 


^-iaent  i.  Cambridge,  ^1:^::  :^ ;  z 

on  sl>ps  of  paper  in  Lis  leisure  h.urs  "a. ,  t         t  7T 

company  in  tl,e  tower  of  St  Bene^lic''    '         '    ,  « ? 
sixty  yeans,"  say.s  Le,  .vritinc.  2,      ,,7    '  ^ 
l^nown,  or  .o.,M  po.iWe  Uei;;:^,S'r 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


77 


tlie  Sixes,  being  the  very  ground  of  a  Six-score  :  then  the  Tvjenti/, 
and  l\uenty-four,  witli  several  other  CJianges^.''  We  naay  mark 
the  rise  of  Chano-e-rino;in2^  in  Camb  rid  Cheshire,  then,  bv  the 
improvements  in  tlie  Bene't  peal  from  1607  to  1615,  by  the 
making  of  Great  St  Mary's  four  into  five  in  1611,  by  the 
addition  or  recasting  of  the  two  trebles  in  the  Stetchworth  peal 
in  1608,  &c.,  &c.,  but  more  conclusively  from  the  general  fact 
that  IS  per  cent,  of  the  bells  now  existing  in  the  county  were 
cast  in  the  early  half  of  the  17th  century. 

Now,  every  one  knows  the  fact  that  the  number  of  changes 
that  can  be  rung  on  a  peal  of  bells  is  the  factorial  of  the 
number  of  the  bells :  2  for  two,  6  for  tJiree,  24  for  four,  120 
the  six  score  ")  for  five,  720  for  six,  5,040  for  seven,  40,320 
for  eight,  &c.  But  it  is  hot  so  generally  known  that  it  is 
necessary  for  a  definite  order  to  be  observed  in  arranging  the 
changes,  and  that  for  more  reasons  than  one.  It  is  clear,  firstly, 
that  no  man  could  go  through  5,040  or  5,120  changes  from  un- 
assisted memory.  There  must  be  some  kind  of  memoria  technica. 
And,  secondly,  from  the  nature  of  bell  machinery,  a  certain 
time  must  elapse  between  two  strokes  of  the  same  bell,  because 
the  bell  has  to  swing  round,  sweeping  out  a  complete  circle 
while  it  turns  from  its  position  mouth-upwards  round  to  mouth- 
upwards  again.  When  the  bell  is  mouth-upwards  an  expert 
ringer  will  hold  it  in  balance  any  time  you  like,  or  an  ordinary 
ringer  may  let  it  a  little  over  balance,  to  be  sustained  by  the 
"  stay  and  slide,"  or  some  other  contrivance,  so  that  there  is  no 
difficulty  in  a  bell  luaiting,  though  there  is  every  difficulty,  or 
rather  an  utter  impossibility,  in  its  coming  round  before  its 
round  is  finislied.    Thus,  if  you  began  writing  a  five-bell  peal, 

12345 
54321, 

the  treble  and  second  would  have  no  difficulty  in  waiting,  nor 
the  third  in  keeping  its  place,  but  it  would  be  very  sharp  work 
for  the  fourth  to  m;ike  two  places,  and  as  to  the  tenor,  there 
would  be  an  ominous  silence  between  its  strokes  at  the  end  of 


^  Tintivnaloijia^  1^>GR. 


I 


78 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


the  first  round  and  the  bednnino^  of  the  second.  In  six-bell 
peals,  eight-bell  peals,  &c.,  Avhere  the  bells  strike  more  quickly, 
a  bell  may,  sometimes,  where  necessity  requires,  change  two 
places  at  a  time,  slip  from  the  fourth's  place  into  the  sixth's  or 
the  second's,  and  so  on,  but  in  five-bell  work  a  bell  should 
never  change  more  platjes  than  one — for  instance,  supposing  a 
bell  to  be  in  the  third's  place,  in  the  next  change  it  must  either 
stay  there  or  go  into  the  second's  or  fourth's,  according  to  cir- 
cumstances, but  it  must  not  go  into  the  treble's  or  tenor's.  My 
ringing  friends  must  pardon  my  stating  things  that  are  quite 
obvious  to  them  but  not  equally  clear  to  those  who  may  have  a 
curiosity  on  the  subject,  but  who,  like  Dr  Gatty,  the  author  of 
the  pleasant  little  book,  Tlie  Bell,  its  Origin^  History,  and  Uses, 
are  frightened  by  the  portentous  array  of  technical  terms  that 
encounter  them  at  the  outset.  This  being  premised,  let  us  see 
the  best  arrangement  of  the  six  changes  in  order  to  form  a  peal 
on  three  bells: 

123 
213 
231 

Here  are  the  first  three  changes,  in  which  w^e  see  the  treble 
acting  as  "tlie  Hunt,"  or  moving  uniformly  amongst  the  others; 
we  see  also,  that  no  bell  is  moved  more  than  one  ^^lace  at  each 
change.  A  bell  is  said  "to  be  hunted"  ^ip  or  cloiun,  according 
as  it  moves  towards  the  tenor's  place  or  the  treble's  place. 
Now,  if  ''the  Hunt"  were  to  be  "hunted  down,"  we  should  get 
no  more  changes— only  213  and  123  again.  This  is  obviated, 
however,  by  making  an  "  Extream  Change,"  or  change  between 
the  second  and  tenor,  allowing  "the  Hunt"  to  rest  in  its  place 
one  change,  tlius : 

321. 

And  now,  "  hunting  down,"  we  get  the  remaining  two  changes, 
viz. 

312 
132. 

This  calling  the  treble  "the  Hunt"  in  a  peal  on  three  is. 
however,  a  master  of  no  real  consequence,  for  if  a  few  series  of 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


79 


those  changes  were  being  rung,  one  bell  would  be  "  bunted  up  " 
and  "  hunted  down  "  as  much  as  another.  The  second  bell  at  the 
third  change,  and  the  tenor  at  the  fifth  change  begin  to  do  the 
very  thing  that  the  treble  has  done,  and  go  through  with  it  like 
the  treble.  This  peal  might,  be  rung  backwards,  by  hunting 
the  tenor  down.   And  so  much  for  the  peal  on  three,  or  "sixes." 

Next  in  order  comes  the  "  four-and-twenty,"  or  peal  on  four 
bells.  This  admits  of  considerable  variety  of  treatment:  I  give 
specimens  of  two  methods — Stedman's,  which,  though  a  most 
clumsy  affair,  was  doubtless  a  great  thing  in  his  days,  and  the 
"Plain  Bob"  method,  from  the  modern  "  Campanalogia." 

Stedman's  first  method  {A7^t  of  Ringing,  p.  8). 


123^1 
2134 
2314 
2341 
3241 
3214 
3124 
1324 
1342 
3142 
3412 
3121 


4321 
4312 
4132 
1432 
1423 
4123 
4213 
4231 
2431 
2413 
2143 
1243 


In  this  peal  the  treble  is  hunted  up  and  down,  just  as  in 
the  "sixes,"  while  the  other  three  bells  have  all  the  same 
curious  movement,  staying  twice  in  each  of  the  middle  places, 
and  thrice  in  the  treble's  and  tenor's  jDlaces.  Every  change  is 
what  is  called  a  "single,"  i.e.  a  change  of  place  between  two 
bells  only,  it  appearing  to  be  the  composer's  object  to  produce 
as  little  variety  as  possible.  In  the  improved  method  the  treble 
moves  exactly  as  in  Stedman's  method,  and  the  other  bells  come 
in  for  their  share  of  the  "  hunting,"  and  half  the  changes  are 
"double,"  viz.,  those  marked  with  an  asterisk  : 


1234 
*2L13 

2413 
•^4231 


4321 
^•3412 

3142 
*1324 


Hitherto  our  'singles"  have  been  made  between  the  bells 


80 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHmE, 


in  the  middle  places.  Sucli  a  "  single  "  would  now  bring  tlie 
bells  round  again  after  eight  changes  only.  A  ''single"  is 
therefore  made  with  the  two  hind  bells,  which,  taking  the  two 
last  changes  above-given,  produces  the  following  effect : — 

3142 
•^1324 

1342 
*3124 

This  movement  of  the  second  and  fourth  is  called  a  "  dodge." 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  name  is  not  without  its  meaning,  for 
the  second  makes  a  feint  as  though  it  were  going  to  be  hunted 
down,"  but  stops  directly  and  returns  to  its  former  place,  and 
the  fourth  imitates  it  the  next  change.  This  gives  us  another 
eight  changes  by  plain  "hunting:"  starting  from  the  last  but 
one  we  have  written. 


1342 
^-3124 

3214 
*2341 

The  second  and  third  now 
remaining  eight  changes. 

1423 
*4132 

4312 
^3421 


2431 
*4213  . 
4123 

n432 

"  dodge,"  and  thus  we  get  the 


3241 
^2314 

2134 
n243 


A  "  single  "  between  the  two  hind  bells  now  brings  the  bells 
round— 1234. 

And  thus  we  part  from  the  "  four-and-twenty."  I  will 
here  insert,"  says  Stedman,  "two  or  three  old  peals  on  five 
bells,  which  (though  rejected  in  these  days,  yet)  in  former  times 
were  much  in  use,  which,  for  antiquity's  sake,  I  here  set  down. 
And,  first. 

The  Twenty  all  over." 

This  is  a  most  curious  old  peal,  highly  interesting  from  its 
extreme  simplicity.  First  the  treble  hunts  up,  while  the  others 
change  no  mo  ■  3  than  to  make  room  for  it. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBHIDGESIimE. 


SI 


123-45 
21345 
23145 
23415 
23451 

Now  tlie  second  does  j^lie  same  thing. 

32451 
34251 
34521 
34512 

The  third  now  hunts. 

43512 
45312 
45132 
45123 

Now  the  fourth, 

54123 
51423 
51243 
51234 

And  lastly  the  tenoi",  which  brings  tlie  bells  round  again. 

15234 
12534 
12354 
12345' 

Here  every  change  is  a  single."  The  twenty  changes 
arise,  of  course,  from  there  being  four  in  each  of  the  fice  hunts. 

Stedman's  next  peal  is  more  to  our  local  purpose,  bejing 
entitled  "Cambridge  Eight  and  Forty,"  probably  from  its  being 
first  rung  in  St  Benedict's  tower.  Let  me  first  notice  how  it  is 
"  Eight  and  Forty,"  instead  of  being  "  Six-score."  The  restriction 
is  that  the  treble  and  second  can  never  come  behind,  nor  the 
fourth  and  tenor  before.  So  that  whereas,  in  the  Six-score," 
24  changes  can  be  made  on  1,  2,  3,  4,  with  the  tenor  always 
behind;  24  on  1,  2,  3,  5,  with  the  fourth  always  behind;  24  on 
1,  2,  4,  5,  with  I  lie  third  always  behind;  24  on  1,  3,  4,  5,  with 
the  second  always  behind ;  and  24  on  2,  3,  4,  5,  with  the  treble 
always  behind;  in  ''Cambridge  Eight  and  Forty"  the  last  two 
of  the  above-mer'ioned  sets  are  entirely  excluded,  only  18  of 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAilJHHDGESHIRE. 


each  of  the  first  two  sets  can  be  admitted,  because  the  fourth 
would  lead  in  six  changes  of  the  first  set,  and  the  tenor  in  six 
changes  of  the  second  set,  and  only  twelve  of  the  third  set,  for 
the  other  twelve  wdll  be  fourth  and  fifth  leads.    Thus  we  get 

18  from  the  first  set, 
18  frbm  tlie  second  set, 
12  from  the  third  set, 

0  from  the  fourth  set, 

0  from  the  fifth  set. 

48 

With  these  observations,  I  give  the  peal  complete,  in  which 
it  will  be  seen  that  the  motion  of  the  bells  is  very  complex, 
there  being  no  "hunting."    Every  change  is  a  "single." 


12345 

31254 

21453 

12135 

21345 

31245 

24153 

14235 

21354 

31425 

24513 

14325 

21534 

34125 

25413 

13425 

25134 

34215 

25143 

13245 

25314 

32415 

21543 

13254 

23514 

32145 

12543 

13524 

23154 

23145 

15243 

15324 

32154 

23415 

15423 

15234 

32514 

24315 

14523 

12534 

35214 

24135 

14253 

12354 

35124 

21435 

12453 

12345 

31524 

Such  was  the  condition  of  Five-bell  work  in  the  earlier  part 
of  the  17th  century,  and  nothing  had  been  attempted,  it  seems, 
on  higher  numbers.  Tlie  ice  had  been  broken  before  Stedman's 
time  by  the  removal  of  the  absurd  restrictions  of  "  Cambridge 
Eight  and  Forty,"  but  no  change  beyond  a  ''single  "  seems  to 
liave  occurred  to  the  first  inventors  of  the  "  six-score."  Every- 
thing is  sacrificed  for  the  sake  of  the  treble,  which  is  "hunted  " 
regularly  up  and  down  all  through  the  peal.  Tlje  second  is 
called  the  "half-hunt,"  though  it  comes  in  for  a  very  limited 
share  of  the  spui-t. 

I  am  induced  to  give  the  Plain-change  peal  entire  from  the 
Tintimialogia,  not  only  from  Stedman's  connection  with  Cam- 
bridge, bat  als'.  because  the  work  is  very  rare,  and  "  Stcdman- 


i 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  83 

ringers"  are  becoming  rarer  every  day.  It  is  desirable  to  save 
from  oblivion  the  early  specimens  of  peal -making. 


The  Plain-changes  on  five  bells. 


"1  O     t  K 

1  Jo-tO 

1  -i  o  Q  rc 
4123o 

51432 

51324 

O  i  OAK 

i  •)  "ton 

54132 

03124 

2.3145 

4231o 

54312 

53214 

2o41o 

42351 

54321 

o3241 

J.340 1 

243ol 

542ol 

o3421 

o24ol 

24315 

54213 

53412 

24135 

' 54123 

r  o  -4  (  O 

53142 

O     -f  IX 

3214;) 

2143o 

51-423 

51342 

O  ^  OIK 

ol245 

1243o 

15423 

15342 

13245 

12453 

15243 

13542 

13420 

214o3 

51243 

31542 

31420 

241o3 

52143 

3o  142 

34120 

24ol3 

02413 

oOIl  J 

3421o 

24o31 

52431 

3o421 

34201 

A  .T  K  o  ^ 

42531 

2o431 

3o241 

34521 

42ol3 

25413 

3o214 

34ol2 

•42153 

2ol43 

35124 

34152 

41253 

21543 

31524 

31452 

1425.5 

-*  OKI  O 

12543 

hoc:  ;)  ( 

l.:)524 

J  o40  J 

14o  Jo 

12oo4 

132o4 

/I  i  r;  •) 
4  J[  0  J  o 

o  X  J  04 

41352 

45123 

25134 

32154 

43152 

45213 

25314 

32514 

43512 

45231 

25341 

32541 

43251 

45321 

52341 

23541 

43521 

45312 

52314 

23514 

43215 

45132 

52134 

23154 

43125 

41532 

"  51234 

21354 

41325 

14532 

15234 

12354 

14325 

15423 

15324 

12345 

14235 

If  Dr  Burney  could  assure  his  readers  that  the  Tintinnalogia 
is  "not  beneath  the  notice  of  musicians  who  Avish  to  explore  all 
the  regions  of  natural  melody  :  as  in  this  little  book  they  will 
see  every  possible  change  in  the  arrangement  of  Diatonic  sounds, 
from  2  to  12,  wdiich  being  reduced  to  musical  notes,  would,  in 
spite  of  all  whicli  has  hitherto  been  Avritten,  point  out  inmuner- 
able  passages,  ;  hat  would  be  new  in  melody  and  musical  compo- 
sition V'  I  m^iy  Vfutui'e  to  claim  at  least  as  high  a  regard  for  the 

^  Buruey,  General  Histvnj  of  ]\[n!^ic,  in.  413.  He  gives  a  spriglitly  "Five  Bell 
Consovte"  by.ToLn    'ukins,  whicli  lie  traces  to  FaLiau  Stediiian's  Tintinudlogia. 

6—2 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


modern  peals,  in  wliicli  the  bells  are  more  freely  moved  about 
amongst  each  other.  This  method  of  plain-changes  is  easily 
applicable  to  any  number  of  bells,  and,  therefore,  I  shall  treat  of 
it  no  further,  except  to  remark  that  one  of  the  six-bell  methods 
(tenor  and  fifth  hunted  down)  shows  by  its  name  how  iasliion- 
able  an  amusement  bell-ringing  was  two  centuries  ngo.  It  is 
called  the  Esquire's  Twelve-score.  Stedman's  great  triumph  was 
in  cross  peals,  or  peals  in  which  "  singles  "  are  rarely  admitted. 
"Old  Doubles"  (probably  the  first  Cross-Peal  on  Five),  and 
"Grandsire,"  which,  in  some  form  or  other,  is  the  standard 
"six-score"  of  the  present  day,  are  not  equal  in  symmetry  to 
"  New  Doubles,"  winch  was  Stedman's  invention.  Any  one 
whose  appetite  maybe  keen  on  the  subject  may  find  substantial 
satisfaction  in  the  pages  of  the  modern  Campanalogia,  in  a 
little  work  by  Mr  Hubbard,  of  Norwich,  on  the  subject^  in 
Troyte's  Change-ringing  (Masters),  or  in  Wigram's  Change- 
ringing  disentangled  (Bell  &  Daldy).  The  subject  of  change- 
ringing  is  inexhaustible,  and  I  do  not  wish  to  occupy  these 
23ages  with  more  of  it  than  is  necessary  for  the  explanation 
of  the  few  old  peals  I  have  endeavoured  to  preserve. 

We  must  return  from  the  ringers  to  the  founders  of  the 
Stuart  period. 

One  bell  from  the  foundry  of  the  Eldridge  family,  at  Chert- 
sey,  is  found  in  our  count}^  It  is  that  at  Little  Abington, 
recognized  by  Mr  Sperling  as  the  work  of  Bryan  Eldridge  by 
its  stops.  The  date  is  16 20.  An  account  of  this  foundry  is 
given  in  the  ChurcJi  Bells  of  Sussex,  p.  32.  Another  solitary 
specimen  is  the  Arrington  bell,  cast  by  JoJin  Bier,  in  15S3. 
The  name  of  this  founder  also  occurs  on  a  bell  at  Broomfield, 
Essex,  dated  1580,  and  on  the  3rd  at  Maulden,  Bedfordshire, 

which  is  inscribed,  ^joljanucs  Wx  Jaiu  campannm  fecit,  1593. 

Perhaps  there  may  be  some  link  connecting  him  with  George 
Clarke,  \^\io  cast  a  peal  for  Duxford  St  Peter,  in  1504^.  Dier 
may  have  intervened  between  this  man  and  one  John  Clarice, 
who  made  the  AVclney  bell  in  1G13,  and  whom  j\[r  A.  D.  Tyssen 
has  turned  up,  without  date,  at  Rumboldswyke,  in  Sussex. 

1  Elements  of  Cainj  malorjia,  Ly  Henry  Hubbartl.    Loddon  :  S.  NoLbs,  ISGl, 


TPIE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 


85 


The  second  bell  at  Flitwick,  in  Bedfordshire,  bears  tlie  in- 
scription gjoljanncs  (Mladic  Ijanc  fecit  campauam,  1G08.  The 
similarity  of  the  lettering  and  the  form  of  the  inscription,  liave 
led  me  to  conjecture  this  connection.  Dier  and  John  Clarke 
both  use  the  pentacle  as  a  trade  mark.  About  the  same 
time  Ave  have  Williavi  Hausleij  and  Richard  Iloldfeld,  the 
former  of  Aviiom  may  be  known  by  his  cacoetJies  tinniendi,  re- 
joicing in  jingling  rhymes,  as 

King  and  fear  not, 
But  swear  not. 

on  the  2nd,  and 

Feare  the  Lord  and  on  liim  ca\d 
William  Havsley  made  vs  all.  1023. 

on  the  4th,  at  Fen  Ditton. 

Shepreth  and  Gravelcy,  too,  know  him.    His  pv><~J 
peculiar  shape  and  makes  his  bells  easy  of  identification. 

Richard  Holdfeld  cast  Little  Shelford  Srd,  Chesterton  3rd, 
and  Trinity  College  clock-bell.    He  uses  the  annexed  initial 


cross  (fig.  83).  I  cannot  help  regarding  these  men  as  Cambridge 
founders,  or  at  least  exei'cising  their  craft  in  the  town  for  a 
time,  and  though  the  lists  of  freemen  do  not  go  back  to  their 
day,  a  vigorous  search  among  parochial  records  may  yet  tell  us 
something  about  them.  Hausley  certainly  is  unknown  beyond 
the  immediate  neiohbourhood  of  Cambridoe. 

Two  bol'-  from  Leicester  are  found  at  Eltisley.  The  3rd  is 
probably  by  William  Newcomhe  (1608),  and  the  2nd,  an  alpluibet- 
bell,  most  likely  by  Hugh  Watts,  a  little  later.  The  Leicester 
foundry  did  r;ii  extensive  business  in  the  South-j\Iidland  counties, 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


its  range  to  the  north  being  curtailed  by  that  at  Nottingham, 
from  which  we  have  one  bell  in  the  county,  the  Haddenham 
tenor,  dated  1657,  bearing  a  stamp,  (fig.  84)  which  contains 

Fig.  84. 


I      ^mmrm   J 

under  a  Cross  Calvary,  between  a  crescent  and  a  star,  the  letters 
C;.  0.  for  George  Oldfield,  whose  father,  Jknrji  Old  field,  in  con- 
junction with  William  Newcome,  cast  old  "Tom  o'Liucoln"  in 
1010.    Georgt'.  Oldfield's  stamp  is  clumsily  altered  from  his 


father's  (fig.  85),  the  head  and  tail  of  the  \)  clearly  remaining 
in  the  Son's   Hamp.    The  band  ornament  (fig.  S())   on  tlie 


THE  CHimCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDOESTHRK.  87 

Haddenliam  tenor  is  a  well-known  mar.k  of  the  Nottingham 
foundry. 


Fig.  SG. 


But  no  founder  of  this  period  was  equal  to  "Colchester 
Grave."  His  chef  tVoiuvre  is  the  tenor  at  Lavenhani,  Suffolk, 
the  beauties  of  which  I  leave  to  be  more  fully  descanted  upon, 
by  some  Suffolk  campanalogist,  remarking,  by  the  way,  that  it 
would  be  well,  when  a  national  work  like  the  Westminster  bell  is 
in  hand,  that  the  dimensions  of  masterpieces,  such  as  tlie  Laven- 
hani tenor,  sliould  be  studied.  Cainbridgeslnre  contains  a  lai^ge 
number  (more  tlian  50)  of  bis  bells.  Among  the  best  of  them, 
perhaps,  is  tlie  Fordham  peal,  four  of  wdiich  he  cast  in  IGoS, 
and  the  tenor  in  1659.  Miles  Gvdye  appears,  from  the  testi- 
mony of  the  bells  at  Barrington,  to  have  been  assisted  by  one 
William  Harhert.  My  conjecture  that  Richard  Bonder,  whose 
bells  are  to  be  found  at  Barton  and  in  St  Peter's  church,  Cam- 
bridge, was  Miles  Graye's  predecessor  at  Colchester:  is  confirmed 
by  l)r  Badham^:  similarity  of  lettering,  and  the  locality  of 
Bowler's  bells  led  me  to  this  conclusion.  Bowler's  latest  date 
is  1620.    Miles  Graye  died  in  16G6. 

There  is  a  nameless  make  in  the  county,  without  even 
initials,  specimens  of  Avhich  may  be  seen  at  Melbounie  (10 IG), 
Stetchworth  ( I  ()0S),  and  Barton  (1608).  Fnmi  similarity  of 
lettering  and  inscriptions  I  am  inclined  to  attribute  these  bells 

^  Plea  for  ih<^  Rcxtonition  of  the  hrll.^  (f  AU  Saiiir>;,  Sii<lhii r;/ ,  \>.  '1. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


to  James  KeenCy  two  of  whose  bells  (the  treble  and  3rd)  are  at 
Flitwick,  in  Bedfordshire. 

John  Draper's  foundry  at  Thetford  disappeared  at  his  death 
in  1644,  but  some  ten  years  afterwards  it  revived  for  a  while,  at 
Bury,  under  "Robard  Gurney,"  son^  of  one  Andrew  Gurney,  or 
"Girne,"  who  seems  to  have  been  for  a  short  time  in  partner- 
ship with  John  Draper^  This  "Robard''  cast  the  treble  at 
Bene't,  in  1G63,  but  being  a  practical  rough  kind  of  hand,  he 
does  not  indulge  in  fusorial  waggery.  The  7th  at  St  Andrew's- 
the-Great,  which  has  been  correctly  described  to  me  as  a 
"mucky,  yawhng  thing,  without  a  bit  o'  music  in  it,"  was  the 
work  of  the  same  hand,  in  16G7.  When  his  bells  are  good, 
they  are,  in  my  opinion,  very  good^  but  many  of  them  are 
below  mediocrity.  The  bell  at  the  Bound  Church  is  his  (1GG3), 
also  the  tenor  at  Impington  (1G52  ?). 

Jolin  Rodson,  of  London,  during  the  Commonwealth  cast 
several  of  our  bells,  viz.,  Fen  Ditton  Srd,  the  late  Horningsey 
treble,  Staplefoj-d  treble,  and  the  chapel  bell  at  St  Catharine's 
College,  all  in  1G54..  The  Hodson  family,  I  think,  was  of  Cam- 
bridge extraction.  The  nan^e  of  Christopher  Hodson,  gentle- 
man, appears  in  the  Corporation  Lease-book  in  the  year  loSO. 
We  know  how  the  same  Christian  name  hangs  about  in  a. 
family,  and  the  bell-founder  rJohn  Avas  succeeded  by  a  Christo- 
pher who  cast  "Tom"  of  Oxford  in  1G80.  These  Cambridge- 
shire bells  of  John  Hodson's  were  cast  at  Saffron  Walden,  as 
we  mcay  gather  from  the  accounts  of  St  Catharine's  College  for 
the  years  lG54-ri: — 

ffor  the  takiijg  down  the  chaj^pell  l)ell,  and  fixing  it] 

again  j     0    7  6 

1  See  the  following  extract  from  tbe  will  of  Andrew  Gurny  (dated  yOth 
December,  1G43) : 

"And  whereas  I  am  indebted  to  my  sonno  Robert  two  hundred  wcy.^ht 
of  that  mettell,  I  will  and  my  mynde  is  that  he  shall  hane  thi-co  luindred  woy^dit 
for  the  two  with  ii'!  ii'y  tooles  and  moulds  for  to  worke  with  all  a^;  to  my  trade 
belongetli.'"    Bujy  Ui^'f^istry,  Lib.  Mcadoioes,  p.  389  b. 

2  John  Draper  and  Andrew  Gurny  made  tlie  4th  at  Lidgate,  Suffolk,  in 
1G25.    The  treble  a^d  2nd  there,  of  the  same  date,  bear  Draper's  name  alone. 

3  E.g.  the  2nd  a  Worlington. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


80 


fi'or  Ccasting  y«  chuppell-bell  (to  which  was  added    i  \ 

pound.s  of  mettle)  and  carriage  of  it  between  this  and  I      3  15  () 
Waldin  ) 

The  Hodsons  were  in  the  habit  of  stamping  their  bells  with 
coins,  a  practice  followed  by  their  foreman  William  Hull,  after 
he  set  np  for  himself.  This  man  after  serving  John  Hodson 
from  lCo4to  1G71,  and  afterwards  Michael  Darhie  (of  Avhom 
more  anon)  finally  established  a  foundry  at  Southmalling,  Sussex, 
where  he  died  in  1687^  Cambridgeshire  possesses  but  one  bell 
of  his,  the  5th  at  Brinkley,  undated,  bearing  the  indistinct  im- 
pressions of  divers  coins,  of  which  I  could  only  identify  the 
Oxford  crown  of  Charles  1.  (fig.  87). 


Fig.  873. 


In  16G7  comes  the  casting  of  two  trebles  for  St  Mary's-the- 
Great,  according  to  Bowtell's  account.  Rohard  Guniei/,  of  whom 
we  have  spoken,  seems  to  have  been  the  founder. 

In  1GG9  there  is  improvement  at  St  Edward's,  Cambridge. 
We  find  two  small  bells  re-cast  and  a  treble  added,  so  as  to 
make  a  little  peal  of  six.  'Cliristopher  Graye  was  the  founder, 
a  degenerate  son,  probably,  of  "Colchester  Graye,"  old  Miles, 
He  seems  to  have  wandered  once  into  Staffordshire,  and  in  1G50 
he  was  at  Ampthill*,  but  the  old  district  had  some  charm  or 
other  for  him,  as  we  find  him  now  for  some  fourteen  or  fifteen 

1  Left  blank. 

2  Church  licll^  of  Sussex,  pp.  20—28. 

3  This  is  iig.  I'.i'iO  in  Charles  Knight's  Old  England,  Messrs  Clowes  have 
kindly  allowed  us  an  electrotype  from  their  block. 

See  cxtraci  from  the  uccomrt  book  of  Jesus  College,  among  the  in- 
scriptions. 


00 


THE  CHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


years  at  Haddenham.  The  parish  book  of  St  Edward's  gives  us. 
all  the  detail: 


"It.,     to  Gray  for  casting  of  two  bells  eight  pounds  and 


for  another  he  added  43  pounds 

10 

10 

8 

it.,  p''  for  more  bell  metle  to  M'.  Kose  and  lor  pewter 

06 

03 

3 

It,,  p*^  for  carying  y^  Bells  to  Hadnain  and      recarying  ot 

them 

01 

14 

4 

It.,  for  5  new  roups 

00 

14 

0 

It.,  for  helps  and  scayls  borrowing  to  way  y"  bells  l)ack 

&  forward 

00 

08 

6 

It.,  for  horse  hyer  5  times  to  hadnam  and  Ely  &  expense 

their 

04 

14 

4 

It.,  to  Haynes  for  hanging  y'  bells  &  altering  y^  frames 

10 

16 

8 

It.,  p'^  to  y*"  Smith  for  Iron  worke 

05 

14 

6 

It.,  p''  to  Bridgcr  Attersly  and  for  nayles  and  a  staple 

00 

02 

5. 

Among  other  founders  of  this  time  were  the  Darbies 
{Michael  and  JoJin),  wlio  seem  to  have  been  brothers.  I  am 
told  that  tliey  originally  came  from  Kelsale,  near  Saxmundham, 
Suffolk,  but  they  were  both  "founders-errant,"  though  of  very 
distinct  cliaracters.  Michael  was  a  rollino;  stone  tliat  c^athered 
no  moss,  while  John's  travels  were  confined  to  East  Anglia. 
^lichael's  wretched  bells  are  to  be  found  in  many  districts,  for 
one  specimen  of  his  casting  ajipears  to  have  been  enough  for  a 
neighbourhood.  His  only  Cambridgeshire  performonce  is  the 
little  peal  at  Whaddon,  in  1671,  in  which  year  he  also  cast  the 
treble  at  Stanstead  Mountfitchet,  Essex.  I  find  him  at  Eynes- 
ford,  Kent,  in  1G51;  at  Boxley,  Kent,  in  1652;  at  King's  Sut- 
ton, Northamptonshire,  1655;  at  Mileham  and  Feltw^ell,  Nor- 
folk, in  1661;  and  Anthony  a  Wood's  testimony  as  to  his  Oxford 
knaveries  in  1657,  is  worth  transcription,  as  indicating  not 
obscurely  the  I'eason  of  his  "wearing  out  welcome."  "A.  W.  his 
mother,  and  his  two  brothers,  Rob.  and  Christopher  Wood,  gave 
5''  to  Merton  Coll.  towards  the  casting  of  their  five  bells  into 
eight.  These  five  were  antient  bells,  and  had  been  put  up  into 
the  tower  at  the  first  building  thereof,  in  the  time  of  Dr  Hen. 
Abendon,  Warucii  of  Merton  Coll.  who  began  to  be  Warden  in 
1421.  The  tenor  or  great  bell  (on  which  the  name  of  the  said 
Abendon  Avas  put)  was  supposed  to  be  the  best  bell  in  England, 
being,  as  'tv;as  '  xid,  of  fine  mettal  silver  found.    The  generality 


THE  CHUllGII  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


91 


of  people  were  much  against  the  altering  of  that  bell,  and  were 
for  a  treble  to  be  put  to  the  five,  and  so  make  them  six:  and 
old  Sarjeant  Charles  Holloway,  who  was  a  very  covetous  man, 
would  have  given  money  to  save  it,  and  to  make  the  five  six, 
bells,  that  is  to  pat  a  treble  to  them.  But  by  the  knavery  of 
Thorn,  Jones,  the  sub- warden  (the  warden  being  then  absent) 
and... Derby,  the  bell-founder,  they  Avere  made  eight.  Dr  Joh. 
Wilson,  Dr  of  Musick,  had  a  fee  from  the  College  to  take  order 
about  their  tuningr.". . All  the  eig^lit  bells  of  Merton  Coll.  did 
begin  to  ring:  and  he  heard  them  ring  very  well  at  his  approach 
to  Oxon  in  the  evening,  after  he  had  taken  his  rambles  all  that 
day  about  the  country  to  collect  monuments.  The  bells  did  not 
at  all  please  the  curious  and  critical  hearer.  However  he 
plucked  at  them  often  with  some  of  his  fellow-colleagues  for 
recreation  sake.  They  were  all  afterwards  re-cast V  iii  1680  by 
Christopher  Hodsonl 

John  Darbie,  whose  head-quarters  were  at  Ipswich  for 
some  time,  began  casting  about  the  Restoration,  and  the 
latest  date  I  have  of  him  is  that  on  the  Isleham  tenor, 
a  macrnificent  bell,  said  to  weicih  25  cwt.,  cast  in  IGSO. 
There  ;ire  only  seven  other  bells  of  his  in  the  county,  a  good 
peal  at  Quy,  cast  in  1070,  and  the  treble  at  Trumpington  and 
second  at  Grantchester,  cast  in  1677.  Christopher  Grave's 
foundry  outlasted  the  Darbies,  his  last  work  being  the  St 
Michael's  peal,  Cambridge.  The  authorities  of  this  parish  had 
three  bells  cast  in  1625,  as  we  have  seen,  and  in  1682  they  paid 
"for  3  bell-ropes,  00  07  06,"  besides  a  crown-piece,  "Given  Joh  : 
Redgrave  for  ringing  y^  nine  a  clock  bell,''  but  when  the  parish 
meets  on  the  4th  of  July,  1683,  they  resolve  to  have  four,  casting 
two  (with  additional  metal)  into  three,  and  keeping  the  old 
tenor.  And  having  got  a  legacy  of  more  than  £16  from  one 
John  Pindar,  they  decree  as  follows: — 

"It  is  agreed  by  tlic  officers  &  p'lshioners  of  the  pai-isli  of  St.  Micluiell 
ill  Cambridge  that  two  bells  be  taken  down  &  carried  forthwith  to  be 
new  founded  &  wit'i  -oiue  addition  to  make  another  bell,  &  the  ]>arish  con- 

^  Life  of  Antlwinj  o  H'oocZ  (Ecclesiastical  Plistory  Society),  pp.  70,  71. 
-  Lnkis  on  Church  (  I'lls,  p.  40. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


tenting  to  be  at  such  charge  as  shall  appear  from  the  Cliurdiwardeus  above 
the  money  in  hand  by  the  gift  of  John  Pindar  deceased. 

Henry  Pyke, 

MiCHAELL  PoGSON 

John  DiSBrxOW,  Overseer. 

JoH.  Stage, 

AViLL.  Lincoln, 

William  Gray, 

Will.  +  GtRissell,  his  marke. 

MATTHEW  WRIGHT." 

It  seems,  however,  that  an  old  garment  had  been  pieced 
with  new  cloth — the  old  tenor  would  not  do.  And. so,  on  the 
14th  of  August,  tliey  met  again  and  decreed  another  decree, 
which  affects,  or  ought  to  affect  the  parish  to  the  present 
day:— 

"It  is  agreed  at  a  meetinge  by  y'  Clnu-chwardens  &  p'ishioners  that 
there  be  a  fourth  bell  bought  &  such  a  rate  made  as  sludl  defray  the 
charges  &  it  (is)  agreed  y'  y**  su'me  of  ten  pounds  given  by  Dr.  Duport^ 
deceased  to  y'  poor  of  this  parish  shall  be  called  in  &  the  C^hurchwardens 
every  year  at  their  discretion  shall  give  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  the  summe 
of  twelve  shillings  which  is  the  interest  of  the  said  money,  and  the  said 
ten  pounds  to  be  laid  out  towards  the  buying  the  said  Ijell. 

Henry  Pyke,         |  churchwardens. 

MiCilAELL  POGSON,) 

John  Stage, 
Joshua  Barton, 
John  Walker, 
Will.  Lincolne. 
Egbert  Dalton, 
Henry  Compton, 
Francis  Hicks, 

EdW.  A^''ITTES, 

Charles  Morden." 

In  the  receipts  for  1683  and  16S4  we  find: — 

"Eeceived  of  the  p'rsh  John  Pindar's  gift 
Received  of  Samll.  Haggais  Dr.  Dupta-t's  money 
Received  i'Jio  years  Interest 
Rec*^  one  \"  account  of  wast  mettall 


Churchwardens. 


IG  7  0 

10  0  0 

00  12  0 

03  08  0/ 


1  Jolu  Duport,  D.D.,  Master  of  Jesus  College  (1590—1018)? 


THE  OHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHirvE.  9.'> 

The  "Disburstments,"  as  tlie  parish  book  ominonsly  hath  it, 
give  us  a  picture  of  tlie  usual  scarcity  of  metal  iii  founders' 
bauds:  it  has  to  be  gathered  of  divers  sources,  though  not  as 
at  Bungay  a  little  time  before,  by  collecting  pewter  from  house 
to  house: 


^■^p"^  Cliristoplier  Gray  for  ninniDg  3  bells 

17 

0 

0 

p  Mr.  i\ose  lor  bell  mettaU 

7 

15 

4 

p  iMr.  bpackman  tor  bell  mettali 

32 

IG 

0 

p"*  Mr.  W  estropp  for  maknige  writings 

00 

9 

0 

p"^  for  Carridge  for  y*^  bells  and  rnettall 

2 

5 

0 

.spent  when  we  bargained  with  the  founder  and  at  taking 

u 

0 

0 

p"*  Henry  Jennings  for  goinge  to  Hadenhain  four  times 

0 

19 

(j 

p*"  the  carpenter's  bill 

8 

4 

7 

ffor  o'  Expenses  at  Hadenbam 

0 

1") 

0 

p"^  to  Simon  ffordham 

•2 

1 

8 

p*^  for  3  bell-ropes 

0 

7 

0 

p'*  Grubb  for  Ijoardes 

0 

13 

(J 

ffor  the  carters  chargers  for  themselves  &  Horses 

0 

2 

i) 

given  the  ringers  on  the  thanksgiving  day  and  the  lift 

of  November 

0 

2 

6 

p'^  for  oyle  &  a  bottle 

0 

0 

5 

p*^  Simon  fordham  for  Keys  and  staples,  &c. 

0 

4 

2 

p''  the  car})eiiter  for  .stayes  &  nayles  &  woike 

0 

4 

2 

So  much  for  the  work  relating  to  the  three  smaller  bells. 
By  the  time  the  tenor  was  to  be  re-cast,  the  Haddenham  foundry 
had  moved  on  to  Lynn,  and  Christopher  Graye  is  no  longer 
founder,  but  merely  acting  formally  to  introduce  his  successor, 
Charles  Newman.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  entries  in  St  Michael's 
book  we  .should  not  have  known  the  origin  of  the  two  Neiur>ians, 
Charles  and  TJiomas. 

The  items  are  as  follows: —  • 

«pd  ye  carter  for  carringe  y"  4'^  bell  to  y*  boatc  0  0  8 

p*^  for  porters  &  a  barrell  &  carringe  y'  bell  to  Lyn  0  8  0 

p**  for  briiiginge  b;ick  y''  bell  from  Lyn  0  8  0 

p"^  for  bringini.-  '  it  from  the  water  &  coals  &  porters  &  oyle  0  G  2 

pHo  Christopli.T  Gray  S  12  0 

p*^  the  founder  for  mettali  5  4  0 


p''  the  carpcntei 


4     2  G." 


THE  CRLTRCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIKE, 


Here  we  may  see  Cliristoplier  Grave  and  "tlie  fuunder"  to 
be  no  longer  one  and  tlie  same,  for  Charles  Newman's  name, 
with  the  date  1684,  is  on  the  bell,  as  may  be  seen  in  the  collec- 
tion of  inscriptions. 

Four  more  items  of  good  auspice  follow,  perhaps  still  inte- 
resting to  the  parishione-rs  of  St  Michael; — 

''Given  lialfe  a  year's  Interest  to  y^  poor  due  in  May  S3 
for  Dr.  Duport's  ten  pounds  0  6  0 
Given  in  Xovenilv  88  for  lialfe  a  year  more  0  6  0 
Given  in  ]\Iay  84  for  halfe  a  year  more  0  6  0 
 Nov.  84  for  another  lialf  year  0  6  0." 

Before  we  take  leave  of  the  great  name  of  Graye,  I  may  say 
that  the  name  does  not  occur  in  the  registers  at  Haddenhani, 
but  there  are  entries  of  the  birth,  baptism  (1682,  2nd  and  loth 
April)  and  marriage  (1707^  27th  Aug.  to  Susan  Aspland)  of 
Thomas  Newman.  The  Christian  name  of  Charles  Newman's 
wdfe  was  Alice. 

Charles  Newman  does  not  shew  up  as  a  "literate  person," 
except  so,  far  as  he  may  deserve  that  designation  for  sticking 
into  a  name  all  the  letters  he  could,  perhaps  on  the  principle 
of  a  Norfolk  farmer — ''if  one  woiddnt  do  another  would."  I 
think  that  his  foundry  must  have  contiuued  at  Lynn,  as  we 
lose  sight  of  his  bells  as  we  approach  Norwich,  at  which  city 
Thomas  Newman  commenced  business  before  Charles  New- 
man's work  was  over.  Besides  the  St  Michael's  tenor,  he  cast 
tlie  bell  at  St  Clement's,  in  1691,  the  Fen  Ditton  tenor,  a  good 
bell,  if  I  remember  rightly,  in  1692,  tlie  Orwell  treble  in  1694, 
the  Girton  2nd  in  1699,  the  Sutton  3rd  and  4th  in  1700,  and 
the  Kennett  treble  in  1707,  which  is  far  the  latest  known  bell 
of  his. 

The  following  story,  related  by  the  Bev.  J.  M.  Freeman, 
Curate  of  Haddenham,  illustrates  the  difficulties  attending  the 
work  of  country  founders. 

"An  old  inhabitant  recalls  a  tradition  of  his  early  youth,  some 
fifty  years  si i to  the  effect  that  there  lived  a  bell-founder  in 
this  place  in  r'pj  olden  time;  and  that  on  one  memorable  occa- 
sion, when  tlie  operation  of  melting  the  metal  had  reached  a 
critical  stage,  it  was  found  that  there  was  deficiency  in  the 


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1).") 


supply  of  material;  a  few  moments  more  and  the  process  would 
be  endangered  if  not  spoilt.  Acting  at  once  on  the  maxim  that 
'the  end  justifies  the  means/  our  traditional  'man  of  metal' 
rushed  frantically  from  his  foundry  and  made  his  way  to  a 
neighbouring  inn,  the  present  'Rose  and  Crown,'  so  the  story 
goes,  making  an  unceremonious  raid  upon  the  establishment, 
'whipping  up'  the  pewter  pots  and  measures,  as  well  as  the 
culinary  vessels  available  for  the  purpose,  these  were  hurriedly 
conveyed  home  and  cast  into  the  furnace  in  time,  let  us  hope, 
to  meet  the  exigencies  of  the  case.  Passing,  however,  to  the 
present  time,  I  may  just  add,  that  in  digging  for  the  foundation 
of  the  new  tower,  a  cavity  Avas  found  in  the  roclv,  C(jntain.ing 
cinder-ashes,  portions  of  bell-metal  and  mussel  shells,  from 
which  circumstances  it  has  been  conjectured  that  the  church 
bells  were  for  convenience  sake  cast  on  the  very  spot  over  which 
they  were  destined  to  hang\" 

About  this  time,  Richard  Cliandlers  foundry  flourished  at 
Drayton  Parslow,  Bucks.  There  is  only  one  bell  of  his,  I  believe, 
in  the  county — the  tenor  at  Melbourne,  dated  168S,  and  weigh- 


FifT.  88. 


inglScwt.  y^''  Sperling  describes  it  as  one  of  the  grandest 
sounding  bells  fur  its  weight  that  he  ever  heard,  an  opinion 

1  Frob'.  the  '■'Cambridge  Chronicle,'"  Feb.  5,  1870. 


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TIIH  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRK. 


which,  I  am  sorry  to  say,  I  have  had  no  opportunity  of  endors- 
ing, but  to  wliich,  no  doubt,  every  Melbourne  man  will  readily 
assent. 

Three  Colleges,  Emmanuel,  Christ's  and  Corpus  Christi  have 
Chapel-bells  from  the  Whitechapel  foundry.  The  first  artificer 
at  this  very  important  place,  of  whom  we  have  any  note  is 
Robert  Mott  or  Moate,  who  died  in  1608.  His  mark  (fig.  88) 
was  followed  by  his  successors  the  Bartletts,  of  whom  ^??(^/iO?i_y 
BartJett  cast  the  Emmanuel  Chapel-bell  in  1672,  and  that  at 
Christ's  in  1675.  The  latter  was  the  gift  of  "John  Childe, 
Esqvier,"  who  matriculated  pensioner  of  St  John's  College,  6 
July,  1671,  and  took  the  degrees  of  B.A.  and  M.A.  in  167-1  and 
1678.  Anthony  Bartlett  used  Mott's  mark  without  the  letters 
R.M.  (fig.  89).    The  Corpus  Christi  bell  (1697)  was  certainly 


Fig.  89. 


made  in  London,  as  it  appears  from  the  following  items  from 
the  College  accounts :  -> 

Paid  for  a  New  Bell  in  exchange  £1.  IZs.  2c/.  for  a  bell 
rope  Is.  6c/.  1    14  8 

For  y*  carriag'j  of  y"  Bell  to  London  and  returning  y"  new 
one  0     5  0." 

We  may  ns^i-'u  it  to  James  Bartlett,  who  succeeded  Anthony 
in  1676,  and  died  in  1701. 


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Shortly  after  tins  time  (as  tradition  goes)  came  Richard 
Keene,  formerly  of  Woodstock,  and  established  himself,  like 
Christopher  Graye,  on  the  green  sand,  having  his  foundry 
near  E,oyston.  None  of  his  Cambridgeshire  bells  bear  his 
name,  and  they  are  only  to  be  identified  by  the  rough  make, 
and  by  bearmg  nothing  nlore  than  the  date  by  way  of  inscrip- 
tion. The  towers  of  Little  Shelford,  Shepreth,  Lolworth,  Shudy 
Camps,  Little  Eversden,  Bur  well,  Duxford  St  John,  and  West 
Wratting,  contain  his  handiworks.  He  is  said  to  have  been 
"  Keene  by  name  and  Keen  by  nature/'  making  a  considerable 
profit  out  of  old  metal  in  his  recastings,  but  how  far  the  love  of 
the  joke  led  to  the  scandal  it  is  not  easy  to  say\ 

Henry  Pleasant'^,  of  Sudbury,  was  a  contemporary  of  Keene's, 
but,  so  far  as  I  am  aware,  the  county  contains  only  one  bell  of 
his,  the  treble  at  West  Wickham,  dated  1700.  Had  it  been  a 
year  later,  our  list  of  inscriptions  would  probably  have  been 
graced  with  a  lively  couplet  of  his  : — 

"  Henry  Pleasant  did  me  nni 
In  the  year  1701." 

He  seems  to  have  been  followed  by  John  Waylett,  who  cast 
the  Whittlesfoixl  4th  in  1708>  and  the  Comberton  treble  in  I7n. 
In  1712,  John  Waylett  and  John  Thornton  were  in  partnership, 
as  we  find  from  a  bell  at  Great  Thurlow,  Suffolk,  cast  in  that 
year,  after  which  time  Waylett  left  the  Sudbury  business  to 
Thornton  and  migrated  into  Sussex,  where  several  of  his  bells 
still  remain.  Thornton  was  a  superior  founder,  as  the  tenors 
at  Cheveley  and  West  Wickham  (1714  and  1718)  will  testify. 
There  is  also  a  neat  little  peal  of  his  at  Newmarket  All  Saints, 
made  in  1720. 

The  last  Sudbury  founder  is  Thomas  Gardiner,  who  is  found 
as  early  as  1711,  and  as  late  as  1759.  He  removed  to  Norwich 
in  1745  and  returned  to  Sudbury  in  1759  ^  In  Cambridgeshire 

^  I  have  ascertained  by  comparison  of  figures  that  the  bells  of  this  group  are 
not  the  handiworl-.  o;'  Samuel  Gilpin,  of  Norwich,  who,  about  that  time,  used  to 
cast  bells  bearing  oidy  the  date  of  the  year. 

He  is  said  to  hr.  "e  come  to  Sudbury  from  Colchester. 

»  CJwrch  Bell^  of  '<forfolk,  p.  42. 

R.  7  ' 


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his  bells  are  to  be  found  at  Brinkley  (tenor,  1727),  Clieveley 
(treble  and  3rd,  1730),  Whittlesford  (:3rd,  173()),  Doddington 
(peal  of  five,  1736-7),  and  Elm  (tenor,  1738).  Those  at  Whit- 
tlesford, Doddington  and  Cheveley  are  marked  "  Sudbury."  He 
places  impressions  of  coins  and  much  other  ornamentation  on  his 
bells. 

Tliomas  Keiuman,  of  ^Norwich  (1701 — 1714),  certainly  paid 
a  business  visit  to  Cambridge,  as  he  did  to  Bury  St  Edmund's 
and  other  places  between  1710  and  1727.  A  bell  at  Berden, 
Essex,  and  the  treble  at  Furneaux  Pelham,  Herts,  testify  that, 
they  were  made  by  Thomas  Newman,  at  Cambridge,  and  in 
1725  he  received  £1.  IO5.  for  casting  brasses  for  St  Benedict's 
peal.  He  must  have  begun  work  very  young,  having  been  born 
at  Haddenham  in  1682. 

The  county  contains  more  than  thirty  of  his  bells — none  of 
them  in  my  opinion  worth  mention,  except,  perhaps,  two  little 
peals  of  five,  one  at  the  Holy  Trinity,  Cambridge,  cast  in  1705 
and  the  other  at  Foulmire,  in  1704. 

A  person  of  greater  importance  is  Henry  Penn,  of  Peter- 
borough. He  did  but  little  in  the  county  except  casting  a 
small  peal  of  five  for  Ely  Cathedral,  the  treble  of  Avliich  is  now 
used  for  a  clock-bell.  There  are  two  good  bells  of  his  at  Sutton 
(1722),  and  a  treble  at  Tydd  St  Giles  (1710),  bearing  on  its 
waist  a  large  figure  of  a  rustic  with  a  flail,  the  crest  of  the 
Trafford  family,  the  bell  being  the  gift  of  Sigismund  Trafford 
of  Dunton  Hall.  He  was  fond  of  putting  quaint  things  on  his 
bells,  as,  for  instance,  when  he  cast  the  peal  at  St  Ives,  he  put 
ou  the  bell  that  was  rung  early  in  the  morning,  "Arise  and  go 
to  your  business,"  and  on  the  7th  : — 

"  AVlien  backward  rung  we  tell  of  fire, 
Think  how  the  world  shall  thus  expire.'' 

His  end  was  one  of  painful  interest.  The  St  Ives  people 
were  dissatisfied  with  their  peal,  and  as  it  should  seem  by  the 
peal  itself,  um-o.'sonably  dissatisfied,  and  a  law-suit  commenced 
between  the  Oiui'ch wardens  and  Penn,  which  was  decided  in 
favour  of  the  li'lter,  who  had  ridden  from  Peterborough  to 
St  Ives,  in  order  to  be  present  at  the  Huntingdon  Assizes.  He 


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09 


fell  down  dead  from  over-excitement  as  he  was  mounting  liis 
horse  in  the  inn-yard  at  St  Ives,  to  return  to  Petei-bnrough. 
This  occurred  in  1729. 

The  county  abounds  in  solitary  specimens.  One  apparently 
from  the  foundry  at  Chacombe,  rear  Banbury,  hangs  in  the 
turret  of  the  Abbey  Church  at  Thorney,  recognized  by  the 
similarity  (not  identity)  of  its  flower-border  with  that  engraved 
by  Mr  Ellacombe  in  his  forthcoming  Church  Bells  of  Gloucester- 
sh  ire. 

It  seems  to  be  a  second-hand  bell,  bearing  a  shield  with  a 
lion  rampant,  not  the  arms  of  the  noble  house  of  Russell,  and  to 
have  been  cast  by  Henri/  Bagleij  tJie  younger  (1720).  Tlie 
foundries  of  this  family  at  Chacombe  and  Ecton  were  con- 
veniently placed  at  no  great  distance  from  Whittlebury  Forest. 
Some  of  the  Bagleys  are  said,  to  have  been  "  Sons  of  Anak,"  and 
I  remember  to  have  heard  a  saying,  "  As  big  as  Bagley  the  bell- 
founder."  Another  lonely  sojourner  is  the  bell  at  Prickwillow, 
inscribed  I.  W.  1G91.  Mr  A.  D.  Tyssen  calls  the  maker,  John 
Wood,  an  itinerant  founder.  He  is  described  as  ''of  the  parish 
of  Bishopsgate,  in  the  city  of  London,"  but  for  two  or  three 
years  he  was  in  Sussex  (1G07 — 1699),  in  which  county  he  cast 
nine  bells  now  remaining \ 

By  this  time  the  London  foundry,  which  had  been  under  the 
management  of  the  Wightmans,  attained  to  great  celebrity 
under  Richard  Plielps,  a  native  of  Avebury,  Wiltshire,  the 
founder  of  the  great  bell  at  St  Paul's  Ca,thedral.  His  name 
brings  us  round  again  to  the  church  of  St  Mary-the-Great,  for 
Novr,  16,  1721,  it  was  agreed  that  certain  of  the  parishioners 
should  contract  with  a  bell-founder  for  new  casting  ail  or  such  of 
the  bells  as  they  should  think  proper.  This  order  was  confirmed 
25  April  following,  and  further  ratified  15  June,  1722,  when  it 
was  concluded  to  increase  the  weight  of  the  eight  bells,  so  that 
the  tenor  should  not  exceed  28  hundred  weight :  at  the  same 
time  it  was  ordered  that  a  new  frame,  wheels,  and  all  other 
thinf][s  necessarv  for  fixinsf  and  hano^ino^  them  should  be  done. 
On  May  11,  j722,  it  was  agreed  to  employ  in  this  business 

1  Church  Helh  of  Sii^^ex,  p.  48. 

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Mr  Richard  Phelps,  bell-founder,  in  Whitechapel,  who  was 
strongly  recommended  by  Dr  Croft,  in  a  letter  to  Mr  Bowman, 
the  organist  of  the  parish.  On  Aug.  2,  1722,  it  was  finally 
concluded  that  two  more  bells  should  be  added  to  the  ei^ht,  to 
make  it  a  peal  of  ten ;  for  which  two  bells  the  founder  was  to 
be  paid  £71.  12,9.  OfZ.,  and  they  were  cast  accordingly,  and 
delivered  to  the  parish  on  the  25th  of  the  same  months" 
These  two  bells,  however,  have  been  since  recast,  as  we  shall 
see.  Of  the  eight  now  remaining  of  this  fine  peal,  the  first  four 
(now  3,  4,  5,  6,  on  account  of  the  subsequent  addition  of  two 
trebles)  and  the  old  8th,  now  the  10th,  bear  the  date  1722, 
while  the  other  three  are  marked  1723.  I  subjoin  the  weight 
of  this  peal  from  a  MS.  of  Dr  Mason's,  quoted  by  Bowtell. 


cwt. 

qr. 

lb. 

cwt. 

qr. 

lb. 

First 

6 

0 

8 

Sixlh 

11 

0 

5 

Second 

6 

2 

6 

Seventh 

14 

0 

17 

Third 

7 

1 

22 

,  Eighth 

15 

2 

2 

Fourth 

3 

22 

Ninth 

21 

0 

27 

Fifth 

9 

0 

5 

Tenth 

26 

0 

19 

Total 

125 

0 

21 

Phelps's  charge  was  at  the  rate  of  £5.  125.  per  cwt.,  wdiicli 
made  the  cost  of  the  bells  £701.  Is.  OcZ.,  reduced,  of  course,  by 
the  value  of  the  69  cwt.  of  old  metal,  but  other  incidental 
expenses  ran  the  sum  up  to  between  £500  and  £G0O,  of  wdiich 
£419.  25.  2ci?.  was  raised  by  church  rates.  ''Further  sums,"  says 
Bowtell, ."were  raised  voluntarily  among  the  principal  inhabitants 
of  the  parish.  Contributions  were  likewise  received  from  several 
inhabitants  of  other  parishes,  besides  tw^o  guineas  each  from  the 
head  of  every  college." 

Next  to  Phelps  in  our  list  of  founders  comes  Joseph 
Eayre  of  St  Neot's,  w^here  he  erected  a  lofty  brick  foundry 
in  the  shape  of  a  bell,  in  the  Priory.  There  are  many  very 
fair  specimens  of  bells  by  him,  amongst  which  I  may  men- 
tion four  complete  peals  of  five — Chatteris  (1735),  'J'riplow 
(174.3),  Dry  Drayton  (1746),  and  Willingham  (1755).    He  was 


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101 


a  son  of  Thomas  Eayre  of  Kettering,  bell-founder  and  clock- 
maker,  who  is  very  highly  spoken  of  by  Mr  Ludlam^  in  his 
correspondence  (1779-80)  with  Mr  Holmes,-  of  London,  clock- 
maker,  on  the  subject  of  the  clock  for  Greenwich  Hospital. 
Holmes  was  puzzled  about  the  bell  for  his  clock.  He  had  the 
choice  between  a  bell  of  121  cwt.  and  a  bell  of  15  cwt.,  aud  he 
found  the  heavier  bell  required  a  less  blow  than  the  lighter 
bell.  He  therefore  concluded,  on  being  informed  that  the 
larger  bell  was  more  "  spread-out,"  that  a  bell  as  commonly 
made  for  a  peal,  is  not  the  fittest  for  a  clock  to  strike  on,  being 
a  "tight-bound"  bell.  There  maybe  something  in  this;  but 
Ludlam  pointed  out  a  far  more  important  element — the  differ- 
ence in  thickness  of  sound-bole.  Ludlam  was  no  admirer  of 
"  spread-out "  bells.  He  says,  "  I  saw  a  great  deal  of  bell- 
founding  in  the  time  of  the  late  Mr  Thomas  Eayre,  of  Kettering, 
a  man  Avho  had  a  true  taste  for  it,  and  spared  no  expense  to 
make  improvements;  much  of  the  tone  depends  upon  minute 
circumstances  in  the  shape;  and  Mr  Eayre  had  crooks  or  forms 
cut  on  thin  boards,  carefully  taken  from  the  inside  and  out- 
side of  all  the  good  bells  he  could  find.  This  county  (Leicester) 
and  Northampton  abound  with  the  best  bells  I  ever  heard,  cast 
by  Hugh  AVatts,  of  Leicester,  between  IGoO  and  1G40.  llingers 
in  general,  ^\ho  are  commonly  constituted  the  judges  of  bells 
(and  as  such  are  fee'd  by  the  bell  founder)  regard  neither  tune 
nor  tone.  The  hauging  of  a  bell  is  all  they  regard,  that  they 
may  show  their  dexterity  in  change-ringing.  IViat  shape  of  a 
hell  that  is  best  for  tone  {a  long  one)  is  not  tlie  best  for  hanging 
or  ringing;  so  tone  is  utterly  disregarded — to  please  the 
ringers  and  get  money  is  all."  Here,  I  think,  Mr  Ludlam  is  as 
wrong  as  he  was  right  about  the  sound-bole.  He  was  disgusted 
with  the  London  founders  for  their  failure  at  St  Mary's-the- 
Great  (of  which  more  anon),  and  so  he  condemned  them  intoto. 
His  remarks  would  certainly  not  hold  good  of  the  fine  peal  of 
twelve  at  St  Peter  Mancroft,  Norwich  (tenor  41  cwt.),  or  of  the 
grand  ton  in  St  Mary-le-Bow  (tenor  53  cwt.),  and  both  these 
peals  were  from  Whitechapel.    It  is  very  true  that  there  are 


1  Mr  Ludlam  [Jolt.)  graduated  as  lltli  Wrangler  in  174S-C'. 


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some  extremely  fine  bells  of  tlie  old  long  form,  but  there  are 
also  some  very  bad  ones.  The'  question  of  shape,  however, 
reqiures  a  treatise  to  itself. 

Ludlam  speaks  of  Joseph  Eayre  as  a  first-rate  founder  of 
"  dish-bells,"  none  of  which  I  have  had  the  fortune  to  see.  In 
passing  from  these  mei]^,  I  may  add  that  Joseph  Eayre  was  a 
considerable  benefactor  to  the  parish  of  St  Neot's.  After  his 
death,  his  cousin  Edward  Arnold  held  tlie  foundry  jointly  with 
the  foreman  TJiomas  Oshorn  for  a  short  time,  and  then  Osborn 
set  up  for  himself  at  Downham  Market,  his  native  place,  wliei'c 
he  died  in  1806,  and  Arnold,  (wdio  knew  nothing  about  his 
business  but  engaged  another  good  foreman,  one  Islip  EdmonJs'), 
continued  the  St  Neot's  business.  He  (or  rather  Edmonds,  I 
suppose),  cast  seven  of  the  Ely  St  Mary's  peal  of  eight  in  1781, 
and  the  Fulbourn  peal  of  six  in  1776.  Both  peals  are  well  spoken 
of.  After  Arnold  came  Euhert  Taylor,  who  cast,  in  1807  and  1816, 
two  nice  peals  for  Bouri]  and  Haslingfield,  to  tlie  latter  of  which 
Earl  Delawarr  was  a  benefactor.  Then  he  took  his  son  Willknii 
into  partnership,  and  tlioy  cast  the  six  at  S  waif  ham  Bidbeck  (a 
pretty  little  pe;d,  ten(.;r  11  cwt.,  in  G  sharp).  The  Taylors  of  the 
second  generation  removed  to  Oxford,  where  Mr  William  Taylor 
died  in  185-1.  JoJm  Taylor,  after  living  at  Buckland  Brewer, 
Devonshire,  for  several  years,  and  casting  many  peals  in  that 
county,  carried  on  for  some  time  a  thriving  business  at  Lough- 
borough, from  which  place  he  sent  several  bells  into  Cambridge- 
shire, amongst  which  I  may  mention  the  treble  and  2nd  at 
Meldreth,  and  the  Snd  and  tenor  at  Wilburton.  It  is  but  due  to 
Messrs.  Taylor  &  Co.,  the  present  representatives  of  the  Wattses 
and  Eayres,  to  mention  the  fact  that  at  the  great  Exhibition  of 
1851,  they  obtained  not  only  the  prize  medal  for  bells,  but  like- 
wise a  record  of  special  approbation  from  the  jurors. 

The  Downham  Market  branch  under  Osborn,  and  afterwards 
under  his  grandson  William  Dohson,  was  not  unworthy  of  its 
ancient  stock.  The  fine- toned  peal  of  ten  in  the  tower  of 
Wisbech  St  Peter,  the  peal  of  six  at  Newton-in-the-Isle,  the 
peal  of  five  ai  Parson  Drove,  Emneth  and  Wisbech  St  Mary, 

1  Itslip  Edmonds  was  in  business  in  London  in  17G1,  when  he  cast  the  treble 
for  ]Melchboaruc,  JBc  Ubrdshire. 


THE  CHUIICH  BELLS  OF  CAMBHIDGESHIRE. 


103 


"will  long  tell  of  the  foundry  in  the  hundred  of  Clackclose. 
After  Arnold's  death,  Islip  Edmonds  became  foreman  to  John 
Briant,  of  Hertford.  From  the  Hertford  foundry  we  have  the 
peal  of  six  at  Cottenham  and  Swaffham  Prior,  and  the  four 
smaller  bells  at  Soham,  making  a  peal  of  ten  in  that  noble 
tower.  Osborn  cast  a  ^eal  of  eight  for  Soham  in  1788,  and 
Briant  recast  the  trebles  and  added  two  still  smaller  in  1808. 

But  we  must  return  to  the  Whitechapel  foundry,  which  we 
left  in  the  hands  of  Mr  Phelps.    It  sunk  rather  under  his 
successor,  Thomas  Lester,  but  rose  again  when  Thomas  Pack 
became  Lester's  partner,  and  perhaps  was  in  its  most  flourishing 
condition  under  Pack  and  Chapman  {William),  to  whom  we 
are  now  introduced  in  connection  with  St  Mary-the-Great, 
where  there  are  three  of  their  bells,  the  present  treble,  second, 
and  tenor.    The  latter,  which  is  a  "  maiden  bell,"  i.e.  one  that 
was  in  tune  as  it  came  from  the  mould,  was  cast  on  Valentine's 
day,  1770,  and  it  is  not  necessary,  I  apprehend,  to  sing  its 
praises  in  its  own  county.    It  may  speak  for  itself.    It  weighs 
29  cwt.,  0  qrs.,  2G  lbs.,  or  3  cwt.,  0  qrs.,  7  lb.  more  than  Phelps' 
tenor,  and  its  diameter  at  lip  is  55'5  in.    The  ringers  say  that 
its  note  is  C  sharp,  but  Mr  Ludlam  calls  it  in  D  "in  the  modern 
opera  pitch."    So  satisfied  was  Cambridge  with  its  new  tenor 
that  Charles  Day  and  John  Paris,  two  of  the  ringers,  managed 
further  to  raise  money  for  "  two  Tribbles  to  make  them  a  com- 
pleat  Peal  of  Twelve,"  and  the  work  was  done  accordingly  by 
Pack  and  Chapman,  who,  perhaps,  from  fear  lest  the  new^ 
trebles  should  not  have  suflicient  power,  made  them  so  thick 
and  heavy  that  they  are  universally  acknowledged  to  be  a  blot 
on  the  fair  fame  of  the  peal.    Ludlam  condemns  them  with  his 
accustomed  redundant  vigour.    ''The  best  bell,  the  best  peal  of 
bells  in  the  world,  are  in  this  very  town,  and  yet  they  never 
regarded  them.    They  undertook  (what  is  impossible)  to  cast 
two  bells,  one  of  which  should  be  an  8ve  and  4th,  the  other  an 
8ve  and  5th,  or  12th,  to  the  tenor  at  St  Mary's,  Cambridge, 
Avhich  is  D  in  the  modern  opera  pitch.    They  did  send  two 
things  they  culled  bells;  but  neither  ringers,  singers,  nor  the 
professor  of  music  at  Cambridge ^  have  been  able  to  determine 

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.what  note  tliey  speak ;  the  general  sentiment  is,  that  they 
speak  no  note  at  all  (30  Aug.,  1779)."  It  is  strange  that 
Ludlani  should  not  have  known  that  "they"  (Pack  and  Chap- 
man) were  the  very  men  who  cast  "  the  best  bell  in  the  world" 
— it  is  equally  strange  that  he  should  charge  them  with  dis- 
regarding their  own  h^^ndiwork.  It  does  not  ajopear  that  the 
tenor  is  the  best  bell,  and  the  peal  of  ten  the  best  peal  in  the 
world,  nor  that  it  is  impossible  to  do  what  Pack  and  Chapman 
certainly  did  not  cany  out  with  any  very  brilliant  success. 
However,  there  are  the  "two  tribbles,"  and  there  they  are 
likely  to  be  till  Cambridge  has  courage  enough  to  face  Ludlam's 
impossibility.  To  finish  up  the  history  of  the  peal,  the  eleventh 
was  recast  at  DoAvnham  Market,  by  William  Dobson,  in  1825, 
and  a  very  beautiful  bell  it  is  esteemed  to  be.  The  10th,  11th, 
and  tenor  are  well-known  to  town  and  gown,  ringing  respec- 
tively at  5-45  A.M.,  for  Congregations  of  the  Senate,  and  as  a 
Curfew  at  9  P.M. 

One  notice  more  about  St  Michael's.  The  great  bell  lay 
useless  for  many  years,  and  was  finally  set  in  order  in  1806,  by 
Thomas  Safford,  a  smith  and  bell-hanger,  who  lived  near  the 
Corn-Exchangee,  and  ventured  thrice  in  his  lifetime  to  make 
church  bells,  which  we  must  not  omit  to  mention,  as  they  help 
to  swell  the  very  scanty  number  cast  in  the  county.  They  are 
the  bell  belonging  to  Trinity  Hall  (1804),  that  at  Fen-Drayt(jn 
(1828),  and  the  Horseheath  tenor  (1825). 

The  Whitechapel  foundry,  under  various  members  of  the 
jllears  family,  has  contributed  several  fair  bells  to  the  county 
in  the  present  century.  A  tiny  peal  at  AVeston  Colville  (1825), 
and  the  tenors  at  JShudy  Camps  (1840),  and  West  Wratting 
(1860),  are  the  most  to  be  noted.  The  peal  of  St  Andrew's- 
the-Great,  Cambridge,  contains  six  of  their  bells,  the  two 
trebles  having  been  added  by  the  late  worthy  vicar,  the  present 
Archdeacon  of  Westmoreland,  on  the  conclusion  of  the  Crimean 
War.  The  effect  of  the  peal  is  anything  but  pleasant,  from 
their  excessive  lightness,  and  from  the  fact  that  the  six  White- 
chapel bells  joined  to  two  of  the  most  clattering  pans  that 
were  ever  dignified  with  the  name  of  bells.  I  am  sorry  that 
the  county  cont  iins  so  few  of  the  later  works  of  this  celebrated 


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foundry.  From  the  Cripplegate  foundry  Stretliam  lias  its  new 
treble  and  tenor,  cast  by  Joltn  Warnei'  and  Sons,  1S7G. 

At  Barrington  is  a  peal  of  six  from  the  foundry  of  William 
Bleius  and  Son,  of  Birmingham.  I  regret  that  I  have  neither 
p^3n  nor  heard  this  peal.. 

We  must  digress  from  "the  bells  to  the  chimes.  Chime- 
barrels  are  of  very  considerable  antiquity,  and  before  the 
Beformation  were  sometimes  pricked  Avitli  Bequieni  Eternam, 
as  music  suitable  to  a  trental\ 

In  1673,  St  Mary's  parish  book  has  a  heavy  item.  "Col- 
lected and  disbursed  this  year  towards  the  chyme,  £69.  195.  Id" 
In  1722,  when  the  old  eight  bells  were  recast,  the  chimes  were 
discontinued,  and  nothing  was  done  till  March,  1793,  when  the 
clock  was  taken  down,  and  tlie  University  agreed  to  put  up 
another,  upon  an  improved  construction,  liaving  a  barrel  to 
strike  the  quarters  cliaugeable  on  four  bells,  which  was  com- 
pleted in  the  following  February,  at  the  charge  of  about  £300. 

The  history  of  these  beautiful  chimes,  the  melody  of  wliicli 
has  been  copied  over  and  over  again,  is  well  worth  preserving. 
I  am  indebted  for  it  to  Mr  Amps,  the  organist  of  Clnist's 
College,  who  had  it  from  Mr  Pratt,  formerly  organist  of  King's. 
About  the  time  of  tliosc  improvements  Dr  Jowett  was  Begins 
Professor  of  Laws,  and  Dr  Bandall  Begins  Professor  of  Music, 
and  Crotch  and  Pratt,  then  mere  lads,  were  his  pupils.  Dr 
Jowett  was  expert  at  practical  mechanics,  modelling,  &c.,  as 
will  be  remembered  by  many  from  the  well-knowm  epigram  on 
one  of  his  handiworks  : — 

"A  little  garden  little  Jo\Yett  made, 
And  fenced  it  with  a  little  paliwade  ; 
If  you  would  know  the  taste  of  I  ttle  Jowett, 
This  little  garden  won't  a  little  show  it." 

Pie  appears  to  have  been  consulted  by  the  authorities  of  the 
University,  and  to  have  taken  Crotch  into  his  counsels".  The 

1  Tymms's  WWs  mv'  I nventories  from  Hie  J^cgistcrs  of  the  Commi'isary  of  Bury 
St  EdininuVs  and  the  .1  r<  h(l,'nconry  of  Sudbury,  p.  28. 

2  "I  think  Dr  Jowe'  could  hardly  have  accomplished  the  task."  Mr  Amps 
to  mc,  20th  April,  18GS.  ,  * 


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latter  may  be  credited  with  the  idea  of  taking  a  movement  in 
the  5th  bar  of  the  opening  symphony  of  that  most  snblime  air 
of  Handel's  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  livetb,"  and,  by  a 
system  of  variations,  not  unworthy  of  Fabian  Stedman,  expand- 
ing it  into  the  annexed  musical  chime. 

FIRST  QUARTER. 


HALF  HOUR. 


THHID  QUARTER. 


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It  was  said  by  Mr  Pratt,  that  when  the  chimes  were  first 
lieard  they  were  thought  so  strange  that  they  were  nick- 
named Jowett's  Hornpipe."  Very  few,  except  those  wdio 
had  known  Crotch,  were  aware  that  he  had  anything  to  do 
with  their  composition,  and  till  they  were  copied  for  the 
Royal  Exchange  their  merits  were  but  little  appreciated. 
But  now  they  sound  from  many  towers,  and  are  dear  to  many 
ears,  and  Croicn  and  Jowett  may  say,  in  the  words  of  ^neas  : — 

Qiuc  regio  in  terris  nostri  non  pk^iia  laboris?" 


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My  next  topic  is  Occasional  Peals,  with  occasional  notes  on 
those  wlio  rung  in  tbem. 

We  have  already  seen  the  rise  of  this  institution  (as  it  may 
be  regarded)  in  the  days  of  Elizabeth.  A  few  later  instances 
of  the  practice  must  be  recorded. 

In  1612  the  University  was  honoured  by  a  visit  from  Prince 
Charles  and  his  brother-in-law  the  Elector  Palatine,  attended  by 
the  Count  of  Nassau,  Lodovic,  Duke  of  Lennox,  Henry 
Wriotliesley,  Earl  of  Southampton,  Bishop  Montague,  and 
others.  They  came  from  Newmarket  on  March  3rd,  and  made 
a  brief  stay  at  Trinity  College  Lodge.  That  the  bells  were  not 
silent  on  this  occasion  we  find  from  an  item  in  the  accounts  of 
the  Churchwardens  of  Great  St  Mary's  : — 

"  Item  for  makinge  cleane  the  cherche  and  for  the  ringers  when  prince 
Charles  was  here  ijs  vj''."     .  . 

I  think  that  the  first  and  second  bells  at  Chesterton  and  the 
third  at  Little  Sbelford  were  recast  in  prospect  of  this  visit. 
Tliey  are  all  of  this  year  and  by  one  founder,  Richard  Holdfeld. 
The  Little  Sbelford  third  bears  the  name  of  a  distinguished 
man  in  the  Prince's  retinue,  spelt  in  a  phonetic  fashion 

"  HKNRIE  WKYESLE,  EARLE  OF  SOVTHAMPTVNN." 

Two  years  afterwards  James  I.  visited  the  University,  when 
St  Mary-tbe-Great  spent  ijs.  and  St  Michael's  vjr?.  for  the  ringers. 
From  the  language  of  Mr  Corbet  Jocular"  Corbet,  afterwards 
Bishop  of  Norwich),  there  seems  to  have  arisen  the  usual  ear- 
filling  din.    He  writes  as  a  Trinity  man  : — 

"Although  we  have  no  bells  to  jangle, 
Yet  we  can  shew  a  fair  quadrangle \" 

Bell-ringing  for  the  return  of  Charles  I.  from  Scotland  in 
1641  seems  to  have  been  a  very  perfunctory  performance,  if  we 
may  judge  from  the  i>arish  book  of  St  Edward  : — 

"  For  ringing  and  ;i  'M-ufire  at  the  Kings  returne  out  of  the 
North  ive  being  comnto itu'cd  therto  hij  tJic  j'ustices        .       .  ,015, 


1  Quot  -lin  Cooper,  xUvu  Camh,  ni.  77. 


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If  we  compare  this  with  the  entry  at  St  Mary-the-Great : — 

"  1650.  Paid  to  Persy  vail  Sekole  the  clarke  for  the  ringers, 
hy  an  order  fruiii  the  Maior,  on  30  Jan.,  being  a  day  of  tluaiks- 
giving   0    2  0," 

we  shall  not  fail  to  pay  a  tribute  of  respect  to  the  wary  carriage 
of  the  parish  authorities,  who  shelter  themselves  behind  tlie 
civil  power  and  executive  "  on  both  occasions.  The  St  Edward's 
people,  perfunctory  as  their  bearing  may  seem,  could  neverthe- 
less spend  a  little  money  on  making  their  sorry  peal  go  as  well 
as  in  it  lay  on  that  occasion.    They  laid  out : — 

"For  3  rowles,  a  peece  of  boarde  and  nayles,  a  dogg  of  Iron 
and  brads  and  spiles  0    7  9 

"  For  a  peece  of  timber  to  make  a  stay  for  the  bell  ropes 
and  workmanshipp   .       .  0    3  6 

"  For  a  Eope  to  the  first  bell   0    2  4." 

There  ^vas  another  ringing  at  St  Mary's,  on  J uly  2Gth,  1G50, 
for  the  success  of  the  Parliamentary  Army  in  Ulster,  under  Sir 
Charles  Coot.  For  this  the  ringers  received  2s.  Gc/.,  and  it  was 
done  "by  LIr  Maior's  appointment."  And  then  we  hear  of  no 
more  merry  peals  till  the  Restoration,  when,  like  the  rest  of  the 
country,  Cambridge  seems  to  have  gone  wild  with  joy,  and  tlie 
little  shed  near  King's  chapel,  sent  fortb,  no  doubt,  a  glorious 
sound.  ''After  the  Musick  had  done.  King's  bell  and  all  the 
bells  in  the  Towne  rang  till  'twas  nights"  Things  were  a  little 
better  now  than  at  the  visits  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.,  especi- 
.ally  at  St  Benedict  and  Great  St  Mary's,  but  no  doubt  the 
King's  peal,  in  spite  of  their  disadvantageous  position,  still 
"bore  the  bell."  The  Duke  of  Monmouth  and  the  Earl  of 
Clarendon  were  greeted  also  with  peals  at  Great  St  Mary's  in 
1GG2  and  IGG-i^  respectively.  All  these  were  probably  on  the 
plain-change  method,  if  indeed  they  were  anything  more  than 
"rounds."  Stedman  says  that  1680  was  the  greatest  number 
of  changes  that  had  been  accomplished  in  his  time. 

After  Phelps's  work  at  St  Mary-the-Great  in  1722  the  new 
bells  did  iiot  I'omain  long  without  a  peal  being  rung  worthy  of 
them,  for  tlie  joresent  society  of  "Cambridge  Youths"  was  esta- 

'  Cooper's  Annals  of  Cavihridge,  Vol.  iii.  p.  478. 


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blished  in  1724,  and  in  1725,  on  tlie  .5th  of  November,  5040 
"GraDdsire  Tripples  "  (a  complete  peal  on  seven,  ahvays  rung 
on  eight  with  the  tenor  behind)  were  rung,  and  this  performance 
was  repeated  on  the  22nd  of  October,  1734,  There  Avas  also 
ringing  at  the  proclamation  of  the  ])eace  of  Aix-la-Chapelle 
(Feb.  9th,  1748),  but  the  faethod  is  not  mentioned.  The 
Register  of  the  Society  contains  amongst  its  names  some  that 
may  surprise  my  readers  : — 

1725.  Charles  Mason,  D.D.,  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  and 
AVoodwardian  Professor. 

172G.    Robert  Hesketh,  of  Christ's  College. 

1728.  John  Roper,  Apothecary,  aftenvards  a  Major  in  tlie 
Army.    Killed  at  Val,  1747. 

1731.  Richard  Dawes,  M.xV.,  Fellow  of  Emmanuel  College, 
the  celebrated  critic \ 

1733.  Samuel  Roe,  M.A.,  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  Vicar 
of  Stotfold,  Bedfordshire,  and  author  of  works  against  enthu- 
siasm, &c, 

1738.    James  Gifford,  Mayor  of  Cambridge,  1757-8. 
1749.    Symon  Kcrrich,  of  Corpus  Christi  College. 
17G7.    John  Incarsole,  a  gentleman  totally  blind,  but  an 
cxccdoiit  ringer  and  musician. 

17G7.    William  Langtey,  of  Jesns  College. 
1773.    John  Bowtell,  the  bookbinder. 

Dr  Mason  got  thoroughly  snubbed  once  by  the  leader  of  the 
Norwich  company  of  ringers.  The  letter  is  too  rich  not  to  be 
preserved  in  its  integrity.    The  Doctor,  it  appears,  wrote  to  the 

1  The  preface  to  Dawes's  Miscellanea  Critica,  by  Kidd,  contains  the  following 
notice  of  the  great  critic's  feats  in  bell  ringing: — "Ut  otio  abundavit,  et  anres 
ejus  semper  fuerunt  teretes  et  religiose,  Dawesius  cum  sodalitate  etiam  honesta 
et  non  prorsus  d/xoiVw  gratiam  iniit,  qui  dictis  diebus  roneas  machinas  fastigio 
Templi  BeatfB  Marire  suspensas,  et  ad  divini  numinis  cultum  Christi  professores 
plerumque  advocantes,  cxcrcent  atque  in  numerum  pulsant.  Illis  sese  ductorem 
libentissime  prabuit;  et,  quod  multi  impugnarint,  exercitatione  defatigatus  done, 
quod  testamento  legavei-at  Doniina  Nargareta,  cum  toto  choro  sese  recrearo  ac 
reficere  non  nolebat;  a-nn  Htibat  eodem  sal  quoddam  facetiaque  libero  ac  remisso 
homine  digna. 

Hanc  qualemcunquc  do  Dawesio  notitiam  acceptam  refero  auctori  in  hac  re 
certe  gravissimo,  Revere!  , 'o  Gulielmo  Paley,  qui  multa  narrare  de  Dawesio  me- 
moriter  jucunde  solebat." 


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Norwich  men  to  ask  them  to  subscribe  to  a  book  of  John  Holt's, 
containing  certain  improvements  on  ^[r  Benjamin  Anable's 
Grandsire  Triples.    The  reply  follows  : — 

"  Rever'^  Sir, 

I  desire  you'l  excuse  my  not  Subscriln"iig  to  a  work  wlui'li  I  have 
some  Reason  to  fear  will  not  answer  to  Expectation.  I  must  Confess  our 
Company  seem  Intirely  to  Slight  it  though  I  mast  own  it  is  not  a  gejuTou.s 
way  of  treating  ]\Ir.  Holt's  performance,  but  I  believe  they  are  InducM  to 
this  by  that  Ingenious  Ringer,  ]\Ir.  Anable's  not  Encouraging  of  it,  had  lia 
approved  of  it,  his  Influence  on  the  Colledge  Youths  I  presume  would  have 
been  sufficient  to  have  sent  it  to  the  Press  without  any  further  Subscrip- 
tions, Rev*^  Sir,  Give  me  Leave  to  Observe  to  you  that  'tis  almost  twenty 
years  since  I  sent  to  the  Rev''  ]\Ir.  Windbell  a  Whole  peal  of  Ten,  with  tAvo 
Inferior  Changes  only,  fully  Exi)laining  by  an  Infalial)le  rule  how  to  make 
any  proper  peal  on  all  Numbers  that  go  with  a  quick  Hunt, 
Eor  Self  and  Co.,  I  am,  S', 

^Vith  Due  Respect, 

Your  most  humble  Ser*, 

John  AVebster."' 

In  spite,  liowever,  of  the  prejudice  of  John  Webster  and  his 
Company,  Mr  Holt's  work  came  forth  and  was  fully  appreciated, 
and  his  name  is  as  much  honoured  as  that  of  Anable  himself. 
Indeed,  Shipway's  Campanalogia  affirms  that  "Mr  Holt's  peahs 
are  still  admired  by  the  be.st  judges  of  the  art  while  the 
Norwich,  not  being  demonstrable,  are  entirely  discredited."  I 
am,  however,  unfortunately  not  qualified  to  decide  the  question. 
Bowtell's  MS.  contains  a  notice  of  Anable's  death. 

This  worthy  man  dying  Feb.  1,  1756,  a  mourning  peal  was  rung  for 
him  in  Great  St.-Mary's  Tower,  CamV)ri<.lge,  and  the  uudermentioned 
character  given  of  him  in  the  newspapers  at  that  time. 

"A  few  nights  ago  was  buried  under  the  Tower  of  St.  Bride's,  ]\Ir. 
Benjamin  Annabel,  the  best  Ringer  that  was  ever  known  in  the  world. 
Till  his  Time  Ringing  was  only  call'd  an  Art,  but  from  the  Strength  of 
his  Great  Genius  he  married  it  to  the  Mathematics,  and  'tis  now  a  science. 
This  Man  in  Eigures  and  Ringing  was  like  a  Kewton  in  Philoso}»hy,  a 
Ratcliffe  in  Physic,  a  Hardwicke  in  Wisdom  and  Law,  a  Handel  in  Music, 
a  Shakespear  in  W'riting,  and  a  Garrick  in  Acting.    0  rare  Ben?" 

This  inflated  eulogy  is  followed  by  "Reflections  on  Death, 
occasioned  by  hearing  the  Dumb  Peal  in  Cambridge  on  Tuesday 
night  last :  — 


THE  CIIUllCII  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  Ill 

"The  grave,  the  wise,  the  youthful  and  the  gay, 
Outbrav'd  by  Death,  resume  their  native  clay; 
Monarch  and  Plebeans  undistinguished  fall, 
Yielding  submissive  to  the  tyrant's  call." 

The  list  of  the  "  Cambridge  Youths"  since  the  admission  of 
Bowtell  contains,  amongst  others,  the  following  names ^ : — 

1777.  Hmnphry  Argent,  Organ  Builder. 

1778.  John  Swan,  Upholsterer,  son  of  Sir  Wilham  Swan,  Bart.,  of 
Sonthfleet. 

1S09.    Thomas  Safford,  AVhitesmitli. 

1835.  Leonard  Proctor,  Esq.,  B.A.,  Trinity  College,  of  Bennington 
Park,  near  Hitchin,  a  great  patron  of  ringing. 

1838.  William  Mortlock,  Esq.  (H.M.),  sometime  an  Alderman  of 
Cambridge. 

1839.  jMaurice  Rocket,  Bootmaker. 

1843.  John  Carr,  Innkeeper,  a  native  of  Waltham  Cross,  well  known 
in  East  Anglia  as  a  ringer. 

1850.    John  B.  Kearney,  Esq.  (II. M.),  of  St  John's  College. 

  ■  tiazlewood,  Esq.  (H.M.),  of  St  John's  College. 

1854.    Richard  Rowe  (H.R.M.),  Member  of  the  Town  Council. 
]85().    Gervas  Holmes,  Esq.,  of  Emmanuel  College. 

1857.  William  Henry  M.  Ellis,  Esq.  (li.M.),  Student  of  St  John's 

College. 

  The  Pvev.  W.  W.  Hutt,  M.A.  (ILR.^^L),  Eellow  of  Cains  College, 

now  Rector  of  Hockwold-cum-Wilton,  Norfolk. 

1858.  "  The  Rev.  E.  G.  Vesey,  M.A.  (H.M.),  Trim'ty  College. 

1859.  K.  H.  Smith,  Esq.,  of  St  John's  College. 
  W.  J.  Rees,  Esq.,  of  St  John's  College. 

18G2.    The  Rev.  W.  Emery  (H.M.),  Senior  Fellow  of  Corpus  Christi 

College,  now  Archdeacon  of  Ely. 

■   T.  Mayo,  Esq.  (H.M.),  Student  of  Trinity  College. 

  The  Rev.  H.  R.  Luard  (H.M.),  Fellow  of  Trinity  College, 

Incumbent  of  St  ]\larv-the-Great,  and  University  Registrar. 
  The  Rev.  J.  Martin  (H.M.),  A^icar  of  St  Andrew-the-Great. 

To  continue  the  record  of  the  most  remarkable  peals  rung 
in  the  district : — 

On  Christmas  Eve,  1770,  tlie  peal  of  twelve  in  the  tower  of 
St  Mary-the-G](':' t  was  honoured  by  5610  Grandsire  Cinques  (a 
method  on  elevi"'  l»clls  with  tenor  behind).    Then  follow  :— 

1  The  letters  B.^,.  signify  Honorary  Member;  H.Il.  M.  Plonorary  Rino;i!it^ 
Member. 


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THE  CHURCPI  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Jan.  29th,  1773.    5220  Bob  Royal  (on  the  ten.) 

Nov.  10th,  1774.    5120  Grandsire  Caters  (on  nine,  with  ten  behind.) 
•  March  14th,  1779,  &  May  15th,  1781.    5040  Bob  Major  (on  the  eight.) 

May  20th,  1782.  A  dumb  peal  for  Lord  Eobert  Manners,  M.P.  for 
the  county,  who  died  of  the  wounds  he  received  in  the  engagement  with 
the  French  fleet,  near  Dominica.  This  peal  was  rung  before  the  rejoicings 
for  Rodney's  victory. 

Jan.  21st,  1788.    6600  Bob  Maximus  (on  the  twelve.) 

^Feb.  16th,  1790.  6000  Treble  Bob  Royal. 

iQct.  31st,  1791.    7002  Grandsire  Caters. 

Jan.  25th,  1793.    A  dumb  peal  for  Louis  XVI,  King  of  France. 
Feb.  14th,  1793.    5039  Grandsire  Caters. 
June  2nd,  1797.    5040  Holt's  Original  Peal 

  1847.    1847  Grandsire  Tripples — a  dumb  peal  for  the  Duke 

of  Northumberland. 

March  11th,  1850.    5040  Grandsire  Tripples. 
Feb.  16th,  1852.    5039  Grandsire  Caters. 

At  Soliam  we  have  the  followino: : — 

Oct.  25th,  1790.    5120  Oxford  Treble  Bob. 
Jan.  Ist,  1795.      5040  Norwich  Court  Bob. 
Feb.  17th,  1800.    5152  Imperial  the  Third. 

The  improved  peal  (180S)  was  duly  honoured  in  the  follow- 
ing year  (Nov.  20th,  1809),  when  5280  changes  of  Oxford 
Treble  Bob  were  rung  in  :J  hours  35  minutes  by  three  brothers 
and  their  sons  :- — 


Thomas  Tebbit,  Treble, 
Robert  Tebbit  (son  of  Robert)  2 
Benjamin  Te])bit  (15  years  of 

age,  son  of  Thomas)  3 
John  Tebbit  (son  of  Thomas)  4 


Robert  Tebbit  5 
Edward  Tebbit  6 
Thomas  Tebbit  (son  of  Thomas)  7 
William  Tebbit  (son  of  Thomas) 

Tenor. 


The  next  peal  (5040  Oxford  Treble  Bob  Royal)  was  rung  on 
the  Ten,  in  honour  of  Queen  Caroline's  Acquittal,  on  November 
16th,  1820.  These  Soham  ringers,  be  it  noted  for  the  sake  of 
the  political  bearing  of  the  fact,  were  men  of  substance  for  the 
most  part — sturdy  Cambridgeshire  yeomen.  Their  names 
follow 


In  these  peals  Bowtell  rang  the  tenor. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Thomas  Tebbit  Treble. 
William  Tebbit  2 
Robert  Tebljit  3 
Robert  Staples  4 
Thomas  Tebbit,  Jun,  5 


Robert  Talbot  (5 
James  Seaber  7 
Benjamin  Tebbit  8 
Thomas  Talbot  9 

John  West  Tenor. 


Nov.  3rd,  182L    New  Treble  Bob  Royal. 

Feb.  22nd,  1850.  "5003  Changes  of  that  jNIelodious  Composition, 
Grandsire  Tittum  Caters.  This  Peal  was  rung  the  first  attempt,  and  with- 
out a  false  change,  in  3  hours  and  35  minutes.'' 

The  peal  of  six  at  St  Andrew's- the-Great  was  opened  in 
1843,  by  720  Bob  Minor,  rung  by  the  Cambridge  Youths,  who 
were  followed  in  their  performance  by  the  Swavesey  ringers. 
Since  the  addition  of  the  trebles  two  long  peals  have  been 
rung:— 

March  18th,  18f)4.    5040  Grandsire  Tripples  in  2  hours  50  minutes. 
March  24th,  18G5.    5040  Bob  Major  in  2  hours  58  minutes. 

Later  peals  will  doubtless  find  in  time  another  chronicler. 

Last  of  all  we  come  to  the  clapper.  Mr  Gervas  Holmes,  M.A., 
of  Emmanuel  College,  a  "Cambridge  youth,"  in  conjunction 
with  Captain  A.  P.  Moore  and  Mr  H.  A.  0.  Mackenzie,  C.E., 
has  started  a  Bell  Foundry  at  Harleston,  Norfolk,  where  several 
improvements  in  hanging,  &c.  have  been  devised,  mainly  by  Mr 
Mackenzie.  Among  these  may  certainly  be  reckoned  the 
"Redenhall  patent  clapper  V'  now  fitted  to  the  grand  eleventli 
bell  in  the  tower  of  St  Mary-the-Great,  and  well  suited  to  bring- 
out  the  full  tone  of  that  fine  bell. 

It  consists  in  fixing  the  head  of  the  clapper  on  what  may 
best  be  described  as  an  outside  tube  which  encircles  and  slides 
on  the  ordinary  shank  of  the  clapper.  Between  the  end  of  this 
tube  and  the  "  stop"  at  the  end  of  the  ordinary,  or  inside  shank, 
a  certain  amount  of  room  or  play"  is  allowed.  When  the 
bell  swings  round,  the  clapper  hea<l,  on  account  of  the  force 
imparted  to  it  by  the  revolution  of  the  bell,  slides  with  its  tube 
on  the  ordinary  shank  and  flies  out  so  far  as  the  "stop"  will 
allow.  It  tlieii  continues  in  this  position  until  the  clapper  head 
strikes  the  bell.    When  the  force  in  the  clapper  is  expended  in 

'  lieJeiihall  is  Die  inotlicr  church  to  Harlestoii, 


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its  contact  with  the  bell,  which  is  then  mouth  upwards,  tlic 
clapper  head  with  its  sliding  tube  consequently  slips  down  the 
ordinary  shank.  At  this  moment  a  bridge-shaped  cross  piece, 
which  is  fixed  on  the  crown  staple  end  of  the  sliding  tube, 
comes  into  action,  and  by  its  contact  with  the  crown  of  tlie  bell 
the  clapper  head  is  kept  from  touching  the  side  until  the  next 
revolution  of  the  bell.  The  vibrations  of  the  bell  thus  continue 
very  much  longer  than  when  the  clapper  lies  on  the  side  of  the 
bell  after  each  stroke. 

The  annexed  engraving  (fig.  90)  gives  a  clear  representation 
of  the  invention,  which  deserves  o-eneral  encourao;ement,  as  a 


remedy  to  the  s  mewhat  hard,  dull  sound  which  a  bell  emits 


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115 


when  rung,  as  contrasted  with  the  full  burst  of  music  obtained 
by  mere  chiming. 

Here  ends  my  chronicle,  a  tedious  one  perchance  to  some 
who  may  see  in  it  little  more  than  a  record  of  local  Tubal-cains. 
But  every  Sunday  and.  many  a  week-day  the  levels  of  the 
flattest  county  in  England  are  made  vocal  through  the  industry 
of  the  men  whose  operations  I  have  striven  to  trace.  Without 
them  the  gift  of  metal  would  have  failed  of  one  of  its  great 
uses,  the  labour  of  the  miner  would  not  have  sent  forth  its 
utterance  of  thanks,  as  expressed  in  the  quaint  couplet  of 
Georgius  Fabricius  : — 

'•  Nee  manet  in  terra?  fossoris  niersa  latebris 
Mens,  sod  fcrt  domino  voia  precesqne  Deo." 


FINIS. 


I 


k 


INSCRIPTIONS  ON  THE  CHURCH  BELLS 
IN  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


N.B.  The  square  is  used  indifferently  for  designs  on  squares,  shields, 
octagons,  &c. 

I.   ABINGTON,  GREAT. 

Mary.  1  Bell  and  a  Priest's  Bell, 

1.     THQS.  MEARS  LONDON  FECIT  1817. 

Priest's  bell.  1789. 
Pits  for  five. 


2.  ABiNGTON,  LITTLE. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell. 

1.     +  DISCE  MORI  NOSTRO  VIVERE  DISCE  SONO.  1620. 

Note  G  sharp,  diameter  37  in.,  weight  c.  10  cwt.  The  tenor  of  a  peal 
of  three.  The  pits  remain.  Between  the  words  are  (according  to 
Mr  Sperling)  a  rose,  a  heartsease,  and  a  pink  by  turns.  These  marks  are 
on  a  peal  by  Bryan  Eldridge,  at  Harmondsworth,  Middlesex,  dated  1658. 

3.  ABINGTON  PIGOTTS. 

Bt  Michael.  2  Bells. 

1.  TEMPO  U  A   LABUNTUR  VENITE  VOCO. 

2.  JESU  NAZARENE  REX  JUDAEORUM  MISERERE  MEI. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


4.  ARRINGTON. 

St  Ficholas.  1  Bell. 

1.  3Jo]&n   :  Wx  :   mabc   :   me   :  1583. 

The  treble  of  a  peal  of  three.  The  pits  remain.  The  2nd  and  tenor 
Avere  taken  away  about  50  years  ago. 

5.  ASHLEY. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell. 

1.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  HUNTS  FECIT  •.•  1774  •.•  JOHN 
GARNHAM  WARDEN. 


6.  BABRAHAM. 

St  Peter.  2  Bells. 

1.  2.   1614.   ^tr  IBcnrg  ^Bnlnbicini  m  us  M\\^ 
toll's  name  antr  fame  abroatj  to  sing. 

The  fourth  and  tenor  of  a  peal  of  five,  the  former  broken.  Inscriptions 
noticed  by  Mr  Sperling  as  "terribly. difficult  to  read,  from  imperfect  cast- 
ing."   Tenor  in  G,  diameter  42  in.,  weight  c,  14  cwt. 

7.  BALSHAM. 

Holy  Trinity.  5  Bells. 

1.      C.  PRESCOT^  RECTOR,  H.  LAGDEN  AND  T.   PURKIS,  CH.  WARDENS 

1774  (the  words  underlined  are  engraved)  pack  and  chapman  of 

LONDON  FECIT. 

\  JKM:m.<^  ':  1609. 

<sr:M"^5si@"K  1609,  m:m,m:m.<^ 

1  From  1751  to  1780  Master  of  St  Catharine's  Hall. 


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4.  [dOB]  Intomt  [069]  (2BccIts  [069]  Fox  [^70]  (ITampana 
[□G9]  iiaicljaclfs. 


In'cartibs  rcbbcr. 
[G7] 
(Royal  Arms.) 

gjoljanncs  toiuiFmc  fcctt 

[a  circular  medallion 

very  indistinct,  .  . 

with  sitting 
human  figure.] 

m'M'wm     MM.'m  ■  ^wm- 

1609. 

Tenor  in  a  rather  sharp  D.  Peal  in  tune.  Old  bells  maiden.  Treble  a 
little  sharpened. 

From  the  Eegister, 

1621.    George  AVoolward  buryed  Jan.  12th. 

inCO.  AVilliam  Taylor  (possibly  the  man  named  on  the  3rd)  buried 
July  7th. 

The  peal  as  improved  in  1009  seems  to  have  called  for  further  improve- 
ment. Sir  Thomas  Sutton,  the  well-known  founder  of  the  Charterhouse, 
left  by  will  in  1611 

"To  the  Parson  and  Churchwardens  of  Balsham,  for  the  time  being,  to 
buy  a  Bell  withal,  to  be  hanged  up  in  the  Steeple,  to  amend  the  Ping 
there,  twenty  pounds."  Heme's  Dornus  Cartltusiana,  p.  215.  In  Stowe's 
Swrveij  (ed.  1618),  p.  812,  the  words  are  "towards  the  buying  a  bell."  For 
some  reason  or  other  Sutton's  intention  appears  not  to  have  been  carried 
out. 

The  late  parish-clerk  of  Balsham  wrote  in  1875  the  following  note  about 
the  bells  : — 

"  The  Bells.  There  were  originally  3,  2  of  them  very  heav3\  2  were 
recast  into  4  (date  on  the  Bells)  thus  making  the  present  peal.  The  little 
bell  was  broken  by  people  going  up  on  May  morning  to  strike  the  Bells, 


^  The  name  of  J^^'ncI  was  existing  in  the  parish  towards  the  end  of  tlie  last 
century.  The  natnc  (if  Taylor  belongs  of  old  to  the  district.  Johan.  Taillour 
de  Brinkle  is  in  tlic  •'^'ommissioners'  Return  of  Camhridgesliire  Survey  for  1433. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 


and  recast  at  the  date  now  on  it."  If  this  account  be  accurate,  and  there 
is  no  apparent  reason  for  doubting  it,  the  present  4th  was  the  treble  to 
this  old  peal  of  three. 

8.  BARRINGTON. 

All  Saints.  6  Bells. 

t>-  ■ 

1.  GLORIA- IN -EXGELSIS- DEO. 

2.  ALLELVIA. 

3.  SANCTVS-SANXTVS  SANCTVS. 

4.  TE  •  DEVM  •  LAVDAMVS. 

5.  SVRSViM .  CORDA. 

6.  kyrie- eleiso^. 

[All  by  Messrs  W.  Blews  and  Sons  op  Birmingham,  1872.] 

In  the  Inventory  of  Church  goods  made  by  the  Eoyal  Commissioners 
Aug.  7,  1552  the  following  entry  is  found :  Bells.  There  is  in  the  steeple 
iv.  great  bells  and  one  Sanctus  Bell^."  The  history  of  these  bells  cannot  be 
farther  traced.  They  or  others  must  have  existed  since  the  13th  century 
at  least,  as  on  the  bell  frame  being  renewed  in  1872  it  was  found  that  all 
the  old  bolts  were  driven  in  from  the  outside,  thus  showing  that  the  Early 
English  tower  must  have  been  built  round  \t.  They  were  probably  removed 
by  Edward's  Connnission"^,  for  in  1(327  four  bells  cast  by  Miles  Graye  were 
placed  in  the  tower,  each  bearing  the  inscription  miles.graye.et.willia:m. 
hari3ERT.me.fecit.1G27.  The  tenor  was  in  F  and  weighed  14cwt.  In  1733 
a  fifth  bell  was  added  marked  thus;  R.  phelrs  fet.  1733,  Messrs  mynott 

TITCHMARSH  ET  THOMAS  JEPPS  WARDENS. 

These  bells  were  arranged  in  the  frame  thus  : 


.±-1 


the  treble  being  above  the  others,  and  continued  in  good  order  till  within 
living  memory.    Tli^'  ]-;t  and  3rd  were  broken  by  careless  ringing  in  1832, 

1  Augment.  Boolc^,  vol.  495,  p.  24. 

2  Or  they  may  hav.  become  broken,  so  as  to  require  recasting.    J.  J.  E. 


I 

I 


THE  CHUIICH:  bells  of  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


the  tenor  fell  in  1846,  and  the  4th  cracked  by  tying  the  chipper  in  lb(!i). 
In  1872  the  whole  peal  was  recast  by  Messrs  Blews  of  Birmingham  into  its 
present  form,  the  Yicar  of  Barrington  (E.  Conybeare)  attending  to  ensin-c 
the  ancient  metal  being  really  used.  At  the  same  date  the  bell  frame, 
which  had  become  utterly  rotten,  was  put  in  thorough  repair.  The  new 
bells  were  consecrated  on  Dec.  5,  1872,  and  hrst  rung  Septuagesima  1873. 

EDWAED  CONYBEARE, 
Vicar  of  Barrington. 

9.  BARTLOW. 

St  Mary.  3  Bells. 

1.    W^^x  gtugusti'm'  ^onct  1\\  gluvc  Bci  [□32n36D31]. 
^.   S?it  idomcn  Bomi'm'  <13encti{ctum  [□3iD36n32]. 
3.   S^cmpora    ulgurn  Bum  ^Bulso  ^csco  (Senesco)  i^ilan'a 
[□3lD3Ga32]. 

An  interesting  untouched  mediiuval  peal.  Dimensions. 

1  2  3 

Diameter  at  sound-bow  29|  in.       35  37 

Circumference  at  inscription  52  in.       61  64. 


10.  BARTON. 

St  Peter.  '4  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.  1G08. 

4.      EICARDVS  BOWLER  ME  FECIT  1601. 


II.  BARWAY. 

St  Nicholcis.  2  Belh 

1.  2.    (No  inscription.)  Dimensions. 

1  2 

Diameter  15^  in.  16Mn. 
Height  15  in.       16i^  in. 


12.  BASSINGBOURNE. 

St  Peter.  5  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.  4.  5.      -MLES  GRAYE  MADE  xME  1650. 

Tenor  said  to  l)c  in  F,  c.  15  cwt.    Diameter  42^  in. 


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THE  CHURCH  BP:LLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE, 


13.  BENWICK. 


St  James. 


1  Bell. 


1.      MEARS  AND  STAINBANK  FOUNDERS  LONDON,  1869. 

Weight  5  cwt. 


14.    BOROUGH  GREEN. 


St  Augustine. 

1.  2.  3.      SAM.  KNIGHT  RECTOR  BURGH,  1710. 

4.  JOHN  BRIANT  HERTFORD  FECIT  1807. 

5.  SAM.  KNIGHT  RECTOR  BURGH  ME  DONAVIT  1710. 


5  Bells. 


The  third  is  cracked. 


15.  BOTTISHAM. 


St  Mary. 


5  Bells. 


1.  TIIOS.  NE^YMAN  AND  HENRY  KING  CHURCHWARDENS,  WM. 
DOBSON  FOUNDER,  1829. 

2.  g)o!)ix  iDvapcr  \m^z  mz  1606. 

3.  0.     JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1G2G,  H.  C. 

4.  ^Hi'carbus  j^icolson  mc  fcctt  [DlOnii]. 


16.  BOURN. 

St  Mary.  6  Bells. 

1.  2.    No  inscription. 

3.  WHILST  THUS  WE  JOIN  IN  CHEERFUL  SOUND 
LET  LOVE  AND  LOYALTY  ABOUND. 

4.  JAMES  BUTLER  CHURCHWARDEN,  ROBT.  TAYLOR  ST  NEOTS 
FOUNDER. 

5.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.  JAMES  BUTLER  CHURCH- 
WARDEN, 1807. 

6.  I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 
AND  TO  THE  GRAVE  DO  SUMMON  ALL. 

JAMES  BUTLER  C 1 !  I  !;CIIWARDEN,  R.  TAYLOR  FOUNDER,  1807. 
"Weight  of  Tcjior  1  4  cwt. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CxniBRIDGESHIRE. 


17.  BOXWORTH. 


St  Peter. 


2  Bells. 


1.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAVE  MADE  ME  1009. 

2.  ROBARTE  KEXTE,  SAMEWEL  PVRCAS  CHVRCHWARDENS,  1615. 


1.  WILLIAM  DOBSOX  DOWXHAM  NORFOLK  FECIT  1S20. 

2.  3.      JOHANES  DRAPER  ME  FECIT  1G09. 

4.  TIIO.   XEWMAX   MADE    ME    1723.      W.   LAWSELL  AXD    F.  FROST, 

c.  w. 

(Three  impressions  of  the  head  of  Queen  Anne's  halfpenny.) 

5.  w.  II. 

(Impressions  of  coins  on  lip,  amongst  which  is  the  Oxford  Crown  of 
'  Charles  I.    See  fig.  87.    The  initials  are  those  of  William  Hull.) 

G,      +  THO.  +  GARDIXER  +  SUDBURY  -f  FECIT. 

(Three  fleur-de-lis)  1727  (scroll)  R-fVALE  F.  (coin)  frost  c.  (three 
fleur-de-lis)  w.  (4  coins.) 

Tenor  between  G  iand  F  sharp.   Diameter  43^  in.  height,  c.  15  cwt. 


1.  2.  3.  4.  1703. 

5.  TIIO.  XEWMAX  FECIT  1723.  ROBERT  BRIDGMAX  AXD  WILLIAM 
PACIIEY  W.  C. 

Priest's  Bell,    pack  axd  citapmax  of  loxdox  fecit  17 7G. 
The  fu-st  four  are  said  to  be  by  Eichard  Keene. 


18.  BRINKLEY. 


St  Mar?/. 


G  Bells. 


19.  BURWELL. 

St  Mary. 


5  Bells  and  a  Fr test's  Bell. 


20.  CALDECOTE. 


St  Michael. 


3  Bells. 


1.    (Xo  inscript''^n.) 


2.  [057  (c(.ii)  -f.57  +  59a60DGl.] 

3.  [  +  3]  .^br  i^an'a. 


124 


THE  CHUllCil  BELLS  OF  CAMlUilDGESHIllE. 


21.  CAMBRIDGE. 


All  Saints. 


:3  Bells. 


1.  (No  inscription.) 

2.  ROBAllT  BROWNE  HENRY  FROST  CHURCHWARDENS,  THOMAS 
NORRIS  MADE  .ME  1G32. 

(Cable  moulding.)  ^• 
.  [dSO  (acorn)  □  containing  an  eagle  (?)  with  closed  wings  of  the  same 
yize  as  the  owl.] 


3.  [□  81]  je"<g>:isi<s>  M-ysi^- 


Here  Blomefield  reports  "3  bells  and  a  Saints  beli,"  C.  C.  p.  70.  Tenor 
c.  6  cwt.   Diameter  32j^- in. 


1.  OB  PACEM  FELICITER  INTER  GENTES  COMPOSITAM  DICAVIT  JO- 
HANNES COOPER  HUJUSCE  ECCLESIiE  VICARIUS  A.D.  1856  CUSTODIEN- 
TIBUS  T.  BRADWELL,  G.  JOHNSON.      C.  ET  G.  MEARS  LONDINI  FECERUNT. 

2.  GLORIA  IN  ALTTSSTMIS  DEO  ET  IN  TERRA  PAX  HOMINIBUS  BONAE 
VOLUNTATIS  A.D.  1850.  DICAVIT  JOHANNES  COOPER  CUSTODIENTIBUS 
T.  BRADWELL,  G.  JOHNSON.      C.  ET  G.  MEARS  LONDINI  FECERUNT. 

3.  4.  5.  6.      THOMAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON. 

THE  FIRST  FOUR  BELLS  RECAST  A.D.  1843  ST  ANDREWS  THE  GREAT. 

7.  NATHANIEL  CRABE,  C.  W.  R.  G.  16G7. 

8.  THO.  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1722  JOHN  EDWARDS  AND  WILLIAM 
PASKVLL  C.  W. 

Here  Blomeiield  reports  5  bells. 


1.      TAYLOR  ST.  NEOT's  FOUNDER. 

Only  one  small  bell  in  Bloniefield's  time.  Date  of  the  present  bell, 
c.  1800. 


22.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Andrew  (the  Great). 


8  Bells. 


23.  CAMBRIDGE. 


St  Andrew  (the  Less). 


1  Bell. 


THE  CHlTUrn  BELLS  OF  CA:>[B11IDGESHTU K. 


125 


24.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Benedict 


6  Bells. 


1.  1663  .  ROBARD  .  GVRNEY  •  MADE.  ME -THOMAS -GRAA^ES-TPIO- FOX 
CTIRVTCII WARDENS  {sic). 


1607 

wwr  w:©  <BM  mM  jKiGT 


4.  HENRY  MARSHALL  JUXR.  AND  WILLIAM  W.  HAYWARD  CHURCH- 
WARDENS 1825. 


6.      THIS   BELL  WAS   BROAKE  AND   CAST   A(L\INE  AS  PLAINIA'  DOTI[ 
APEARE, 

JOHN  DRAPER  MADE   ME   IN  1 6 1 8  WICH  TLME  CHVRCHWARDENS 
WERE 

EDWARDE    DL\SON   FOR  THE   ONE   WITOE   STODE  CLOSE  BY  HIS 
TACKLIN 

AND    HE    THAT    WAS    HIS    PARTNER    THEN     WAS  ALEXANDER 
JACKLIN. 

See  Lamb's  Histonj  of  Corpv.s  GJivhii  College,  pp.  430 — 1. 

The  fourth  is  by  !;'.t)soii  of  Dowi)hain.  The  3rd  in  spite  of  its  ''puff" 
is  a  very  poor  bell,  'riie  dimensions  are,  perpendicular  heiglit  from  lip  to 
crown  26|in.,  do.  from  )ip  to  shoulder  22|  in.  Diameter  l^.'^.^in.  Circum- 
ference at  inscription  Th;),  in. 


126 


TITE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRTDGESTUTIE. 


25.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Botolph.  4  Bells. 

1.  +  Srancte  .aipoh'nc  Ora  ^i3ro  iaobts  %  [oU]  O. 

2.  +g?nncte  ^ntrren  Ora  ^ro  iSobi's  [□.34n37]. 

3.  S^ancta  i^argartta  <©ra  ^Pro  NoIji's  [34n37D]. 

4.  iSomrn  i^acitraknc  (fTampana  CScrft  iilclotftc  [□34d37]. 

A  remarkcably  interesting  medicoval  peal  of  four,  intact.  They  are  very 
thin  in  the  sound-bow,  and  the  following  dimensions  were  taken  by  Mr 
Clarence : — 

1  2  3  4 

Circumference  above  inscription  46  in.  48-^  in.  56  in.  62  in. 
Diameter  at  riui  28  in.       20^  in.       35  in.       36  in. 

St  Apollonia,  whose  teeth  were  beaten  o\it  at  her  martyrdom  in  the 
Decian  persecution,  was  prayed  to  })y  sufferci's  from  tootli-aohe.  The  vcr.se 
and  response  ran  thus  : — 

V.  Virgo  Christi  egregia,  pro  nobis,  Apollonia 

Funde  preces  ad  Dominum,  R.  Ut  toilat  omne  noxium 
Ne  ])ro  reatu  criminum  morbo  ^'cxemer  deutium. 

Tlie  name  was  usually  spelt  Apolline  (see  the  w(;rks  of  Becon,  Bale 
and  others  [Parker  Society]),  and  the  sex  of  tlie  saint  ciuue  to  be  mistaken. 
The  god  Apollo  wa,s  also  known  by  this  name,  IVom  M  hii-h  further  con- 
fusion may  liave  arisen  :  — 

"Pirrus  to  the  prise  temple  preset  full  hai-d 
Of  honerable  Appollyne,  as  Antenor  bade." 

Ocst  Jlystorinh  of  De.^tnirtlon.  of  Troy  (E.  J^].  T.  S.\  ]>.  3;)0. 

The  inscription  on  the  Tenor,  with  the  word  Meloclie  (be  it  substantivti 
or  adjective)  is  on  tlie  2nd  bell  at  Cold  Overton,  Leicestershire  and  the-2nd 
iit  Leicester  All  Saints.  It  was  also  on  the  4th  at  Mildejdiall,  Saflblk,  now 
recast. 

26.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  aiemnit  I  Bell  and  a  J'ri(^sf\^  Bell. 

\.      Nirnr,os  APTIIORPK  XATITANELL  WlLSllK  C.  M'.        \.  1601, 
Pj'iest's  lie!'.      T.  OSHOl^X  FF.CIT  M^(^. 

The  Ix'll  is  bv  Charles  Newman. 


THK  CIIIjIKMI  BELLS  OF  a\ MBRIDaKSHIUK, 


27.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Christ  Church.  1  Bell. 

A  modern  cluircli  with  probably  a  modern  bel]. 

28.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Edward  the  Confessor.  C  Bells. 

1.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1669. 

2.  3.      IN  TL"\IPnANlS  LAUDATE  DOMINUM,  C.  G.  1669. 

4.  [074]  1576  DE  BVRI  SANTI  EDMONDI  STEFANYS  TONNI  ME 
FECIT.  W.  L. 

5.  [^49  Thrice  on  slionldor.] 

H-  Srancta  •  gluna  '  <©ra  ♦  ^3ro  *  iEobiis. 

6.  +NON  CLAMOR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AYRE  DEI. 
Tenor's  weight  c.  9  cwt.,  diameter  3G|  in. 

29.  CAMBRIDGE. 

■  St  Giles.  J  Bell. 

CVM  •  CANO  •  BYSTA  •  MORI  •  CYM  •  PVLPITA  •  YEVERE  •  DESI  •  1629, 
Fig.  82  between  each  word.    J'' or  "vevere  desi,"  "vivere  (bsce"  wa.s 
clearly  intended. 

30.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Mary  (tlio  Oi-cat).        1  2  Bells  and  a  Priest's  Bell. 

1.  THESE  TWO  TRIBBLES  TO  MAKE  THEM  A  COMPLEAT  PEAL  OF 
TWELYE  WAS  RAISED  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  AT  THE  INTEREST  OF  CIIAS.  DAY 
AND  JNO  PARIS  RINGERS  OF  THIS  SOCIETY  IN  THE  YEAR  1770.  ALDER- 
MAN "WEALES  AND  JNO  HASELUM  CII.  WARDENS.  PACK  AND  CHAPMAN 
OF  LONDON  FECIT  1773. 

2.  RAISED  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  AT  THE  INTEREST  OF  CIIAS.  DAY  AND 
JNO  PARIS  RINGERS  OF  THIS  SOCIETY  IN  THE  YEAR  1770.  ALDERMAN 
WEALES  AND  JNO  HASELUIM  CH.  WARDENS,  PACK  AND  CHAPMAN  OF 
LONDON. 

3.  R.  PHELPS  MADJ:  .me  1722  MESS.  TFTO.  FOWT-R,  EDW.  PHI  PCS 
CHURCHWARDENS. 

4.  5.  R.  P.  FEfMT  1722  MESSIEURS  TITO.  FOWLK,  EDW.  PIIIPPS, 
CHURCHWARDENS. 

6.  R.  PHELPS  t-KciT  1722  JIESSIEURS  THO.  FOWLE,  EDW.  I'lIFPI'S 
CHURCinVARDENS. 

7.  8.  9.  R.  PIIEL^'S  FECIT  1723,  MESSIEURS  EDWAIID  PIIII'J'S,  THOMAS 
FO^VLE,  CTTURCinVARDENS. 


128 


TTTK  r!HlTRCIl  BELLS  OF  CAMBKiDnESLTTPx  R, 


10.  RICIIAKD  PIIKLPS  LONUINI  F1-X!IT  1722,  MESSIEURS  SAMUEL 
HERRING  EDWARD  PIITPPS  ClIUUCmVARDEXS. 

11.  JAMES  PARRON  AND  JOHN  GIFFORD  CHURCHWARDENS  WTLLM. 
DOBSON  FOUNDER  DOWNHAM  NORFOLK  1825. 

12.  THIS  BELL  CAST  IN  THE  YEAR  OF  OUR  LORD  1770,  ALDERMAN 
WEALES  AND  JNO  IIASELUM  fGU.  WARDENS.  PACK  AND  CHAPMAN  OF 
LONDON  FECIT. 

Priest's  l>ell.    this  bell  was  made  by  john  warren,  1G()7. 

The  Gtli  has  been  flattened  and  the  7th  sharpened  by  chip[)ing.  Tenor 
said  variou.sly  to  be  in  D  and  in  C  sharp.  Diameter  5o{r  in.,  weight  ,30 
cwt. 


31.  CAMBRIDGE. 

>S'^  Marjj  (the  Less).  1  Bell 

32.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Matthew.  ^        .*)  lipJls. 

1.  2.  3.      J.  TAYLOR  k  CO.  LOUGHBOROUGH  18G7. 

Diameter  of  Tenor  19Hn. 

33.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St  Michael  4  Bell^. 

1.  2.  3.      CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1083. 

4.  CHARLES  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  1081  iMlCHAEL  PUGSOX  HENliV 
PYKE,  WARDENS. 

AVeiglit  of  Tenor  c.  8  cwt.,  diameter  35|  in. 


34.  CAMBRIDGE. 

•    >S'^  Peter. 

1.      RICAKD-S  HOWLER  ME  FECIT  1003. 


1  Bdl. 


J 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  129 

35.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Holy  Sepulchre.  1  and  a  Priest's  Bell 

1.      ROBARD  GVRXEY  MADE  ME  16G3. 

Priest's  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 

33.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Holy  Trinity.  5  Bells  and  a  Priest's  Bell.  ■ 

1,  2,  3,  4.      THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  1705. 

5.     JOHN  SEWSTER  AND  EDWARD  WARING  C.  WARDENS  1705. 

A  poor  light  peal.    There  is  a  small  Priest's  bell  lying  about  here. 


37.  CAMBRiDGE. 

IMtV'^S  College.  (Chapel  and  Hall  Bells. 

Chapel  Bell,    cvm  moveo  admonio  1G22. 

Hall  Bell.     +  peeter    vanden    ghein    heft    mi  guecoten 

MDXLVIII. 

38.  CAMBRIDGE. 

ClaiT  COHCCJT*  Cha2)el  and  Clock  Bells. 

Chapel  Belh    1727.  ' 
Clock  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 


39.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Pembroke  Colltge.  Chaj^el  and  Hall  Bells. 

Chapel  Bell.    Robert  taylor  of  st  neot's  179  1 
Hall  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 

40.  CAMBRiDGE. 

©onbille      €nim  College.  i  ^eii 

I.  1736. 

Diameter  14 in,,  'Tote  C. 


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130  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 

41.  CAMBRIDGE. 

1.     T.  SAFFORD,  1806. 


42.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Corpus;  Cftrfeti  College. 

1.  1G09. 


43.  CAMBRIDGE. 

WiUXV['^  College*       Ckapel  and  Hall  Bells,  and  a  Dish- 
Bell. 

Chapel  Bell,    ovm  moveo  admoneo  1G16. 

Hall  Bell.  1730. 

Dish -Bell.    (No  inscription.) 

44.  CAMBRIDGE. 

(©ueens^  College*       cimpei  and  imi  Beiis. 

Clinpel  Bell,    miles  graie  fecit  1G37. 
Hall  Bell  ? 


45.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Cat{;arure's(  College* 

Chapel  Bell.    i.  ii.  1654. 
Hall  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 


Cha2:)el  and  Hall  Bells. 


46.  CAMBRIDGE. 

3e^US«  College  N  2  BelU  and  Hall  Bell. 

1.  c.  G.  1659. 

2.  +iaomcn  ^Hucte  %t%\x  nos  scvbn  mortis  ab  csu. 

Hall  Bell.  1709. 

The  first  is  \^y  Christopher  Grave.  The  second,  weighing  6  cwt.,  is  by 
'Taylor  of  Loiighboi  uigh. 


THE  CHURCH  BKLLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


131 


47.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Cim^VS^  ColltQt.  Cliopel  and  Iloll  Bells. 

Chapel  Bell,    jonx  ciiilde  esqvier,  ]  G75. 

Hall  Bell,    collegium  +  citristi  -f  1628  -f  jaxeuary  +22. 


48.  CAMBRiDGE. 

The  "Silver"  Bell  in  the  south-west  turret  of  the  principal  gateway. 

QUOD  FACIO  PULSATA  VOLEXS  TU  PERFICE  CLARO 
SCILICET  UT  P0S5IT  TEMPU3  ABIRE  SOXO.  V.'.  L.  1G21. 

HallBell 

The  "  Silver"'  Bell  is  apparently  by  "William  Land. 
The  following  extract  frorn  the  Audit  Book  of  St  John's  College  reLates 
to  the  year  1610. 

"Bestowed  upon  Goodman  AVardall  for  his  paynes  al:)out  the  casting  of 
the  bell.,.y'.  For  y  writting  of  a  bond  wherein  holdfeeld  the  bell  founder 
is  bound  to  maynetayne  the  bell  for  one  yeare  vj'." 

It  is  important  to  our  pui^pose,  as  suggesting  that  Pdchard  Holdfeld 
was  a  Cambridge  founder,  for  there  is  no  charge  fur  carriage. 

From  a  view  in  Loggan  it  appears  that  the  south-west  turret  of  the 
principal  gateway  was  surmounted  by  the  cu])ola  which  now  stands  on 
the  ridge  of  the  Hall  roof. 

49.  CAMBRIDGE. 

CrUTltl)  Co!Icn;e*    clock  lell,  2  Quarter  BeUs.  ami 

one  otJier  hell 

Clocll  Bell.      RICARDVS  HOLDFELD  ME  FECIT  1610. 

EESOXAT  TRIXITAS  IN"  VXITATE. 

1st  Quarter  Bell.  1726. 

2nd     ,,  CYM   voco  vexite  tiios.  o.sborx  dov.-xiiam 

NORFOLK,  170."^. 

Bell  in  the  G-.^at  Court.  1811. 

Blomefield's  .xccMint  is  hard  to  be  reconciled  with  this.  "On  the  large 
bell,"  he  says,  "init  up  with  a  new  clock,  'These  three  bells  and  clock 
were  made  a.d.  17. .G.   Ric.  Bently,  (sic)  D.D.  Master.'"   Coll.  Cant.  p.  114. 


1 


I 


132 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


50.  CAMBRIDGE. 

iSmmanUel  CoIIecre*  O/^peZ  and  Hall  Bells. 

Chapel  Bell.    A.  b.  1C72. 

[0  89] 

Hall  Bell,   f  f  edwd.  Arnold  Leicester  fecit  1790tt-i- 

In  the  inside  of  the  cupoLa,  which  bears  the  date  1673,  is  rudely  cut 
"Thomas  Holbeclie,  1G80."  He  was  Master  of  the  College,  and  died  in 
that  year. 

51.  CAMBRIDGE. 

^ftnej)  S^US^^jfJl*  COIIeCrt.  Chnpel  Bell 

Chapel  Bell.  Sidney  Sussex  college,  anno  dom.  1739,  J.  e.  st 
NEOTs  fecit. 

The  initials  are  those  of  J oseph  Eayre. 


52.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Bell  presumably  modern. 


53.    CAMPS,  CASTLE. 

All  Saints.  5  Bells. 

1.  prosperity  to  the  village  of  castle  camps. 

2.  LONG  live  king  GEORGE  THE  FOUIlTn. 

3.  THIS  BELL  WAS  RECAST  BY  J.  TAYLOR  AND  SON  OF  LOUGH- 
BOROUGH 1852. 

THIS  PEAL  OF  5  BELLS  WAS  CAST  BY  W.  DOBSON  OP  DOWNHAM 
1827. 

4.  ISAAC  PEARSON  AND  WILLIAM  PARKIN  CHURCHW :  1827.  THE 
REV.  GEORGE  PEARSE  B.D.  RECTOR. 

5.  THIS  PEAL  OF  BELLS  WAS  ERECTED  AT  THE  EXPENSE  OP  THE 
PARISHIONERS  AND  BENJ^  KEANE  ESQUIRE  OF  WESTOE  LODGE  A.D. 
1827. 

The  third  was  broken  when  the  tower  fell.  Weight  of  Tenor  11  cwt. 
NoteG. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


183 


54.    CAMPS,  SHUDY. 

jSt  Mary, 


5  Bells. 


1.  4.     JOHN"  THORNTON  SUDBUllY  FECIT  1719. 

2.  SAMUEL  LYNDSELL  AND  JOHN  BUCKLEY  C.  W.  1699. 

3.  1621.     NON  CLAMQR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI. 
5.     THOMAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON,  1840. 

On  a  brass  plate  let  into  the  stock  of  the  Tenor:  "1840,  George  Bury 
Vicar,  William  Traylen  and  Henry  Truenian  Churchwardens." 


1.  xg^anctaiWlnria. 

2.  X      .  i^arm  •  CUratta. 

Both  maiden  bells.    Pits  for  three.    This  tower  is  a  standing  miracle 
of  country  builders'  recklessness.    Some  day  it  will  be  a  falling  wonder. 
S  on  the  1st  is  fig.  53. 

56.  CAXTON. 

St  Andreio.  5  Bells, 

1.  2,  3.  4.  5.     CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1672. 

Weight  of  Tenor  12  cwt.,  or  a  little  under.    Note  G. 


1.  UTILE  DULCI.  VIVITUR  INGENIO.  GRATA  SIT  ARGUTA  RESONANS 
CAMPANULA  VOCE  1735, 

2.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTAS  1735.  GRATA  SIT  ARGUTA  RESONANS 
CAMPANULA  VOCE. 

3.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTAS  ANNO  DOM.  1735. 

4.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTzVS  ANNO  DOM.  1735.  J.  EAYRE,  ST  NEOTS 
FOUNDER. 

5.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTAS.  RICHARD  CLARK  AND  JOHN  JIARIETT 
CHURCHWARDENS. 

A  light  peal  with  a  broken  Tenor,  originally  in  G,  weight  c.  9  cwt. 
Diameters:  I.    26^ in. 


55.  CARLETON. 

St  Peter. 


2  Bells. 


57.  CHATTERIS. 

■  St  Peter  and  St  Paid. 


5  Bells. 


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134  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBllIDGESHIKE. 

58.  CHESTERTON. 

St  Andrew.  5  Bells. 

RICAEDVS  IIOLDFELD  ME  ..FECIT, 
RICAllDVS  IIOLDFELD  ME  FECIT. 

■  m^M-^  ■  :m<mmm'm^- im. 

4.  CIIIIISTOPHER  GIIAYE  MADE  ME  166  — 

5.  WILLM.  AND  JOHN  TAYLOR  OXFORD  FOUNDERS  FEBRY  OtII  1825. 
JOHN  BRIGIIAM  WILES  AND  WILLM.   JOHNSON  CHURCHWARDENS. 

The  3rd  and  4tli  arc  said  to  have  come  from  Jeaus  College.  The 
former  is  said  to  be  a  very  line  specimen  of  sharp  lettering.  Through 
the  centre  of  the  west  vailing  the  staircase  passes  to  the  first  floor. 
Diameter  of  Tenor  IT?,  in.,  weight  about  a  ton,  Note  E. 

59.  CHESTERTON. 

St  Luke.  '  1  Bell . 

Bell  presumably  modern. 

60.  CHETTISHAM. 

St  Michael  1  Bell. 

1.    (No  inscription.) 

61.  CHEVELEY. 

St  Mary  and  the  Holy  Glwst.  5  Bells. 

1.  3.     THOMAS  GARDINER  SUDBURY  FECIT  1730. 

2.  On  shouldei'  thrice  [n-lO]. 

[+54  in  an  oci.M^on]  sniuta  :  ^uua  :  oca  :  pro  :  nobis. 

4.  REVD.  JAS,  "  IIOS.  HAND  RECTOR  JOSEPH  COLLINS  TIIOS.  MARTIN 
ni.  WARDENS  TIIOS.    ;SBORN  FOUNDER  DOWNHAM  NORFOLK  1800. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  135 

5.  JOHN  THORNTON  SUDBURY  FECIT  1718.  THOS.  REVEL  THOS.  PECK 
CH.  WDS. 

The  fourth  is  cracked.    The  tenor  is  a  good  beU.. 

62.  CHILDERLEY. 

St  Mary,  Ecclesia  destructa. 

Destroyed  hy  Sir  John  Ciitts  in  the  seventeenth  century. 

63.  CHIPPENHAM. 

>S^^  Margaret.  5  Bells. 

1.  T.  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1703.  J.  JARROLD  S.  TETSALL  C.  W. 

2.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1601. 

8-  [+8]  [.9]  rniM-X^M-  [-9] 

m^MJ^MM-  [-9]  ^-M^m.M  [-9] 
-^^mmmmiw^  [-9]  ^er©f^m 

4.  On  shoulder  thrice  [□  10]. 

mMJSl^W-M-  [-9]  miM-'M^- 

mM-Wi^mM-  [-9]  m~MM-  ':^~m<^ 

5.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1G21. 


64.  CLOPTON. 

St  Mary.  Ecclesia  destructa. 

65.  COATES. 

Holy  Trinity.  1  Bell. 

1.     THOMAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON  1840, 


66.  COLDHAM. 

St  Etheldreda. 
Bell  presumably  modern. 


67.  COMBERTON. 

St  Mary, 

1.      JOHN  WAYLi  T  MADE  ME  1711. 


1  Bell. 


4  Bells, 


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THE  CHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIIIE. 


2.  3.    milone:\i  graye  me  fecit  1633. 
4.    christopher  graye  made  me  1655. 

Miles  Graye  in  the  course  of  two  years  discovered  that  'Milonem' 
was  the  accusative  case,  and  attended  to  the  First  Concord. 


68.  CONINGTON. 

St  Mavij.  4  Bells. 

1.    On  shoulder  thrice  [dIO]. 

mM:m'^M-  ■■  mm  •■  <s^^j^^m  •. 

3.  MILO  GRAVE  ME  FIXIT  IGo."). 

4.  On  shoulder  thrice  [□  19]. 

[+  54]  utrgo  [:  55]  coronata  [:  55]  liuc  [:  55]  nos  [:  55]  ab 
[;  55]  rcpa  [:  55]  licata. 

A  remarkable  little  company  in  many  resjiects.  It  was  evidently  in- 
tended for  a  peal  in  FJ,  and  the  upper  three  were  in  tune.  The  tenor, 
however,  is  split  to  the  wai.st,  and  the  effect  lias  l>een  to  send  her  note 
down  from  the  presumahle  Fif  to  The  treble  also  is  split,  but  sounds 
very  well,  considering  her  condition. 

]\Iiles  Graye's  conversion  to  the  use  of  the  nominative  case  is  to  be 
noted. 

In  this  parish  a  bell  is  rung  at  7,  and  two  at  9  on  a  Sunday  morning 
when  the  usual  ,S'.'r\  ices  are  to  take  place,  but  if  there  is  no  afternoon 
service  the  7  o'cl".  k  bell  is  rung.  If  there  is  to  be  an  afternoon  service 
only,  one  bell  is  runL:-  at  9.  Also  (as  is  usual  in  this  neighbourhood)  a  bell 
is  rung  after  murir'ng  service  to  intimate  that  there  will  be  a  service 
in  the  afternoon.    ]Mr  Tillard,  the  late  Kector  of  Conington,  told  me 


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that  in  this  neighbourhood  the  ringing  in  of  the  Tenor  to  the  chiming 
signifies  that  there  will  be  a  sermon. 

The  2nd  bell  is  identified  by  its  lettering  as  the  handiwork  of  Wilel- 
mus  de  Notyngham,  afterwards  known  as  Wilelmus  de  Norwyco. 

69.  COTON. 

St  Peter.  3  Bells. 

1.  [dTG]  1581  [.77]  [076]  [thrice]. 

2.  I.  ANGIER  AND  ^yM.  LINDSELL  CHURCIIWAUDENS.  EDWD.  ARNOLD 
FECIT  1786. 

3.  [054]  birc^o  [:  55]  coronata  [:  55]  tixit  [:  55]  nos  [:  55]  air 
[:  55]  regna  [:  55]  i)cata. 

The  letters  A,  C  and  S  are  engraved  in  figs.  51,  52,  53. 

70.  COTTENHAM. 

All  Saints.  .  Q  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  BRIANT  :  HARTFORD  FECIT.  AN  :  DOM  :  1800  :  OMNES 
INCOL^  PLAUDITE. 

2.  3.  4.     JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT.  1800. 

5.  w  :  ivATT  SENR  :  w  :  ivatt  jun^.  t  :  ivatt,  >k  r.  bacciius  : 

FEOFFEES  FOR  CHURCH  AND  CAUSEWAY.      JOHN  BRIANT  :  FECIT  1800. 

6.  J  :  BRIANT  :  HARTFORD  :  FECIT  1800.  C  :  IVATT  :  T  :  IVATT,  J. 
CALLENDER  :  C  :  W.  REV^.  PEPLOE  WARD  :  RECTOR.  STATUTUM  IIOMINI- 
BUS  SEMEL  MORI. 

Tower  rebuilt  IGlT. 


71.  COVENEY. 

St  Peter.  1  Bell 

1.  C.  AND  G.  MEARS  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1847  J.  FREEMAN  W.  POR- 
TER C.  W. 

Note  B,  of  a  .-!!■  ':; I  piercing  quality,  which  makes  it  seem  of  higher 
pitch  than  it  really  i.s. 


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THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBPJDGESHIllE. 


72. 


CROXTON. 


St  James. 


6  Bells. 


1.    [+81]    VEXITE- ET-AUDITE-OMNES -QUI- TIMETIS-DEUM.  LEEDS- 


1687. 


TOBIE  NORRIS  CAST  ME. 

2.  JOHN  RICHARDSON  C.  ,.W.  J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1701  f 
ROBERT  PIIIPP  RECTOR. 

3.  4.  R.  TAYLOR  ST  NEOTS  FOUNDER  1804.  JAMES  LANTAFF 
CIIURCHAVARDEN. 


6.      CVM  CAXO  BVSTA  MORI  CVM  PVLPITA  VIVERE  DISCE  1624. 

The  stop  on  the  treble  is  a  braid  of  three  strands,  which  I  have  found 
on  a  bell  of  Tobie  Xorris's,  jim.,  at  Grantham.  The  peculiarity  of  one 
Roman  letter  in  a  Longobardic  inscription  on  the  5th  bell  is  noted  by  the 
type  used. 

The  name  Leeds  on  the  treble  is  that  of  some  member  of  that  family, 
formerly  the  owners  of  Croxton  Park. 


1.  ROBERT  M ALTON  WILLIAM  PETTET  CIIVRCH  WARDENS  1623. 

2.  RING  AND  FEAR  NOT 
BUT  SWEAR  NOT  1623. 

3.  JOHN  IIODSON  MADE  ME  1654. 

4.  FEARE  THE  LORD  AND  ON  IIIM  CAVL 
WILLIAM  HAVSLEY  MADE  VS  ALL  1623. 

5.  EDWARD  WRANGELL  JOHN  CURTICE. 
CHARLES  Ni;V,MAN  MADE  MEE  1692. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  3  2  cwt.,  Diameter  39^  in.    Note  G. 


73.  CROYDON. 

All  Saints. 

1.      J.  BRIANT.  HERTFORD  FECIT  1786. 

Note  F. 


1  Bell. 


74.    DITTON,  FEN. 

St  Mary. 


5  Bells. 


THE  CHUllCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  139 

75.    DITTON,  WOOD. 

^S'^  Marij.  5  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1G08. 

2.  WILLIAM  DOBSON  FOUNDER  DOWNIIxVM  NORFOLK  1825. 

3.  [a  fleur-de-lis  under  fig,-20]  [alO]  ^ii  ^m\t\\  Bomi'nf 
23enctrtctum. 

4.  [  68]  sum  [dGO]  rofa  [nCO]  pulfata  [nTO]  munbi  [dGO] 
mnn'n  [dTO]  bocata. 


1588 


O  +68 


fig.  G7. 
4-G8  0 


(Royal  Arms.) 


stcpljaiuis  tonnt  mc  fcctt 

5.  [+68]  btratm's  [nCO]  affumptc  [qGO]  nomcn  [qGO]  gevo 
[□70]  trmc  [069]  luan'c. 

1588 


fig.  67. 


+08 


(Royal  Arms.) 


O  _  +68 

stcpljanus  tonni  mc  fecit      +68  jloljanucs  ^Hvat 

Tenor  c.  19  cwt.  The  treble  was  brought  from  Weston  Colville  after 
the  fall  of  that  tower.  An  inscription  three  lines  deep,  probably  re- 
lating to  the  AVeston  Colville  people,  has  been  filed  away. 

One  John  Pratt  was  appointed  Keeper  of  the  pheasants  and  partridges 
in  the  Lordships  of  ]3arnet,  Hadley,  South  JNIims  and  Totteridge,  26  Sept. 
1580.    See  Cal  Doin,  Eliz,  Add,  1580—1625. 


76.  DODDINGTON. 

St  Mary.  5  Bells. 

1.  THOMAS  GARDINER  SUDBURY  SUFFOLK  1737. 

2.  THOMAS  GAi; MIXER  1736.     JOHN  HOWARD  C.  W. 
.   3.  4.  5.     THOMAS  (iARDINER  SUDBURY  FECIT  1736. 

Tenor  in  A,  diameter  36  inches,  weight  c.  8  cwt. 


140 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIEE. 


77.  D0WNHAM-(1N-THE-!SLE). 

St  Leonard.  4  Bells. 

1.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1702. 

2.  UTILE  DULCI  MUSICE  ^ETATEM  AGIMUS.  CIIUHCIIWARDENS 
W  :  DENSTON  &  R  :  MARTIN.     jpS  *.  EAYRE  :  FECIT  1784. 

3.  ICf.    'M@-    I<Sr.  1659. 

4-  J-:<ia'.   'M.-<B.   Jf.m.  1659. 

The  two  last  have  a  peculiar  ornament.    [K.  H.  S.] 


78.    DRAYTON,  DRY. 

St  Peter  and  St  Paid.  5  Bells. 

1.  I.  II.  S.  NAZARENUS  REX  lUDEORUM  FILI  DEI  MISERERE  MEI... 

1746. 

2.  I.  n,  S.  NAZARENUS  REX  lUDEORUM  FILI  DEI  MISERERE  MEI, 
HIC  LABOR  HOC  OPUS.  1746. 

3.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.     UTILE  DULCI.  1746. 

4.  ...  IIETHRINGTON  RECTOR.  HEN.  MARKIIAM  MICH.  GIFFORD 
CHURCHWARDENS... 

5.  DISCE  MORI  NOSTRO  VIVERE  DISCE  SONO. 

OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.     J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS,  1746. 


79.  DRAYTON,  FEN. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell. 

1.     TIIOS.  SAFFORD,  CAMBRIDGE. 

This  bell  is  said  to  have  been  put  up  in  1828.  Safford's  foundry  was  in 
"  Birdbolt  Lane." 

80.  DULLINGHAM. 

St  Mary.  5  Bells  and  Clock  Bell. 

1.  JOHN  BRIAXT  HARTFORD  FECIT  1784.  J.  IIAYLOCK  AND  W.  FROST 
C.  W. 

2.  T.  MEAKS  OF  LONDON  FECIT  1828. 

3.  JOHN  D I!  A  ]  !•:!?  MADE  ME  1027. 


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4.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  162G. 

5.  MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1660. 

Clock  Bell.     T.  MEARS  OF  LONDON  FECIT  1828. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  11  cwt.,  diameter  39  in.    Note  G. 


81.  DUXFORD. 

St  John. 


6  Bells. 


1.  2.  3.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1777.  RICHARD  niTCII, 
C,  W. 

4.  MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1632. 

5.  gjubiUmus  Beo  Sfilutnvi  nostro 
^rEovgius  ^lad^e  me  zX  mcos  fotrales  fcci't. 

1564. 

6.  1699.      GEO.  BARKER,  HENRY  WALLIS,  C.  W. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  9  cwt.,  diameter  36  in.,  Note  G.  The  fifth  came 
from  Duxford  St  Peter. 

82.  DUXFORD. 

St  Feter.  1  Bell. 

1,     EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1777.    RICHARD  lIITCn  C.  W. 
Pits  for  five.    The  old  tenor  is  now  the  5th  at  Duxford  St  John. 


1.  ALEXANDER  BAALAM  ESQ.  GAVE  PART  OF  THIS  BELL,  1673 
(?  1637). 

2.  THOMAS  NORRIS  MADE  ME  1637. 
PR^CENTRIX  ARGUTA  CHORI  RESONABILIS  AURE. 

3.  (No  inscription.) 

4.  OLD  BELL  CAST  IN  1637  REPLACED  BY  PRESENT  CAST  1865. 
E.  SWANN  VICAR,  G.  MEARS  LONDON  FOUNDER. 

5.  TIIO.  JENKINSON  ESQ.,  H.  NEWSON  +  VIC  :  J.  H.  W.  II.  C.  W.  +  TIIO. 

GARDINER  FECIT  1738. 

The  old  4th  was  inscribed  "W.  Gyles  Clericiis.  Spiritibus  tuba  losta 
bonis,  odiosa  maliguif^  1637." 


83.  ELM. 

All  Saints. 


5  Bells. 


1 

4 


142  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAIStBRIDGESHIRE. 

84.  ELTISLEY. 

>S'^  Fandiana  and  St  John.  4  Bells. 

1.  TIIOS.  BARXET  VICAR,  WM.  DAY,  CHURCHWARD: 
JOS.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  17G6. 

2.  [039] . 


3.  BE  YT  KXOWNE  TO  ALL  THAT  DOTII  ME  SEE 
THAT  XE^YCOME  OF  LEICESTER  MADE  ME  1G08. 

4.  +  S^it  iSomnt  Bomi'nf  23eiuti{ctum  [oio]. 

The  second  bears  the  shield  used  by  the  Bras}'crs  of  Xor\Yich,  and 
aftenvards  at  Leicester. 


85.    ELY  CATHEDRAL. 

St  Peter  and  St  Etheldreda.  5  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.  4.     (No  inscription.) 

5.     HEXRY  PEXX  MADE  ME  1723. 

All  of  one  castincr.    Tlie  treble  is  now  used  as  a  Clock  Bell. 


86.  ELY. 

St  Mar?/.  8  Bells  and  Priest's  Bell. 

1.  5  BELLS  RECAST  AXD  2  ADDED  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  AND  RATE  1781. 

2.  TRINITY  PARISH  GAVE  ME.     E.  ARXOLD  ST  XEOTS  FECIT  1781. 

3.  ECCLESIAE  MARIAE  DONAVIT  MATIIIAS'  EPISCOPUS  ELIEXSIS 
MDCCLXVI. 

4.  EDWD.  ARXOLD  ST  NEOTS  IIUXTIXGDOXSIIIRE  FECIT  1781 
GOD  BLESS  THE  KIXG  AXD  QUEEN. 

5.  I  TO  THE  POOR  AND  NEEDY  AM  A  FRIEND 
FOR  WHOSE  RELIEF  I  CALL  YOU  TO  ATTEND. 

6.  MAY  OUR  l;icn  good  and  HAPPY  BE 
AND  OUR  r-.'OR  PEACE  AND  PLENTY  SEE. 


^  Bishop  Mawsoii. 


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143 


7.  TIIOS.  PELL,  ESQ.  GAVE  ME   1670.     RECAST  BY  EDWD,  ARNOLD 

APRIL  Gtii  1781. 

8.  EDAYD.  ARNOLD  FECIT  1781.  CAESAR  MORGAN  A.M.'  MINISTER, 
WM  CROPLEY,  JNO.  FLANDERS,  CHURCHWARDENS. 

I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 
AND  I  TO  THE  GRAVE  DO  SUMMON  ALL. 

Priest's  Bell,    st  neots,  1778. 
Weight  of  Tenor  18  cwt.    Note  F. 


87.  ELY. 

Holy  Trmiti/.  1  Bell  and  a  Friesfs  Bell. 

1.  JOHN  TAYLOR,  JOHN  IIAYWARD,  CHURCHWARDENS.  THOMAS 
NORRIS  MADE  ME  1048. 

This  bell  by  Norris  is  cracked.  [K.  H.  S.] 
Priest's  Pell  (on  shoulder  thrice)  [□•19]. 

+  abc.gractn.  plena. 


88.    EVERSDEN,  GREAT. 

St  Mary,  8  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  BUTCHER  CHURCHWARDEN  17G7. 

2.  (No  inscription.) 

3.  MILES  GRAIE  FECIT  1639. 

The  treble  and  2nd  are  from  the  St  Neots  foundry,  from  the  border  at 
the  end  of  the  inscription,  which  is  identical  with  that  at  Fulbourn. 


89.    EVERSDEN,  LITTLE. 

St  Helen.  4  Bells. 

1.  (ISTo  inscription.) 

2.  ROBERT  LEET  CHURCHWARDEN.    J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1756. 

3.  MILES  GRAYK  MADE  ME  1629. 

4.  CHRISTOPH'M;  ^iRAYE  MADE  ME  1666. 


1  The  author  of  Tlte  Trinity  of  Plato  and  of  Philo  Judaus. 


144 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHmE. 


90.  FORDHAM, 

St  Mary.  6  Bells. 

1.  FECIT  1759. 

2.  3.  4.     MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1638. 

5.  ROBT.  HAYWARD  AND  JOHN  MINETT  CnURCHWARDENS,  R.  D.  FYSON 
AND  JAMES  SEABER  CONTRACTORS.  PROSPERITY  TO  THE  VILLAGE  OF 
FORDHAM.     \VILLIAM  DOBSON  FOUNDER  A.D.  1825. 

A  good  peal.    Treble  apparently  by  Lester  and  Pack. 


91.  FOULMIRE. 

St  Mary.  5  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.  4.  5.    TnoMAS  newman  made  me  1704. 
The  Tenor  is  cracked. 


92.  FOXTON. 

St  Laivrence.  ^  5  Bells. 

1.  2.  4.  5.     MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1G54. 

3.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  OP  NORWICH  MADE  ME  1729.  J.  RAYNER  AND 
W,  BATTESON  C.  W. 

•   Weight  of  Tenor  c.  12  cwi,  diameter  39^  in.    Note  F  sharp. 


93.  FULBOURN, 

All  Saints.  Ecclesia  destructa. 


94.  FULBOURN. 

St  Vigor,  6  Bells  and  Clock  Bell. 

1.  BY  AN  ACT  OF  PARLIAMENT  OBTAINED  IN  1775 

2.  THE  RUINS  OF  ALL  SAINTS  CHURCH  WERE  TAKEN  DOWN 

3.  AND  THE  i^VRISHES  UNITED.      EDWD,  ARNOLD  FECIT  ME  1776. 


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1     AND  THESE  SIX  BELLS  CAST  BY  A  SUBSCRIPTION  IN  177G. 
5.      EDWD.  ARNOLD  OF  ST  NEOTS  CAST  THIS  PEAL  OF  SIX  BELLS  ANO 
DOMINI  177G. 

G.      EDWD.  ARNOLD  OF  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1776. 

I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 

AND  TO  THE  GRAVE  DO  SUMMON  ALL. 

Clock  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 

This  bell  seenia  never  to  have  been  bored  for  a  staple.  Height  to  top  of 
cannon  I9h  inches,  diameter  I3h  inches.    Weight  of  Tenor  11  cwt. 

The  following  extract  from  Hone's  Table  J]ool;  p.  843,  is  inserted  here 
as  illustrative  of  the  manners  and  opinions  of  Cambridgeshire  a  century 
ago. 

"FuLBOURN,  Cambridge. 
"All  Saints'  and  St  Vigor's  Bells. 
To  the  Editor. 

"  On  a  visit  to  a  friend  at  Fulbourn  we  strolled  to  the  site  whereon  All 
Saints'  Church  formerly  stood,  and  his  portfolio  furnished  me  with  the  sub- 
joined memoranda,  which  by  your  fostering  care  may  be  preserved. 

I  am, 

Sir,  &c., 
T.  N. 

Cambridge,  Mav, 

^'riniti/  Smidai/,  lICAx 

"  This  morning  at  five  o'clock  the  steeple  of  All  Saints'  church  fell  down. 
An  Act  of  Parliament  passed  22d  j\lay,  1775,  to  unite  the  service  in  St 
Vigor's  church,  and  to  enable  the  vicar  and  cliurch wardens  to  sell  the 
materials  and  the  bells  towards  repairing  tlie  clun'ch  of  St  Vig'>r's — the 
amount  was  i^'150.  Os.  Go?.  The  two  broken  bells  were  sold  towards  the 
expenses;  the  other  three,  with  the  two  of  St  Vigor's,  and  the  saint's  l)ell, 
were  new  cast  by  E.  Arnold  at  St  Neots,  Hunts.,  and  six  new  bells  were  put 
up  on  the  9th  of  I\Iay,  177G.  The  subscriptions  amounted  to  £141;  the 
bells  cost  £2G2.  2s.  Sd.,  the  frames  £45,  the  six  new  ropes  £1.  in.s-,,  making 
together  the  sum  of  £308.  17 s.  2d. 

"The  poor  inhabitants  were  so  attached  to  the  old  bells  tluit  they  fre- 
quently Avatched  them  in  the  evening,  lest  the}'  should  be  carried  away  and 
sold;  for  the  brokm  1  oils  lay  among  the  ruins  of  All  Saints'  church.  At 
last  their  fears  su!'S!>l.'d,  they  neglected  their  watching,  and  the  church- 
wardens set  a  waggon  in  Monk's  barn  (hard  by)  and  carried  away  two  of 
them  in  the  night,  (U  'i\  ering  them  to  the  Cambridge  waggon  for  St  Neots, 
and  returning  before  i  be  morning,  which  occasioned  the  following 

R.  10 


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THE  ClIUllCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


Ballad. 

"There  are  some  farmers  in  Fulbourn  town, 
They  have  lately  sold  what  was  not  their  own; 
They  have  sold  the  bells,  likewise  the  church, 
And  cheat  the  poor  of  twice  as  much. 

And  0  !  you  Fulbourn  farmei's  0  !  ' 

"  Some  estate  there  Avas  left,  and  all  for  the  poor, 
They  have  robb'd  them  of  half  and  something  more ; 
Such  dirty  tricks  will  go  hard  on  their  sides, 
For  the  d— 1  will  have  them  and  singe  their  hides, 
And  0  !  you  Fulbourn  farmers  0  ! 

Before  the  bells  they  could  be  sold, 
They  were  forced  to  swear,  as  we 've  been  told  ; 
They  foreswore  themselves — then  they  cried, 
For  this,  my  boys,  we  shall  be  tried. 
And  0  !  you  Fulbourn  farmers  0  ! 

"There  is  old  Twigg,  and  young  Twigg — the  whining  dissenter. 
Says  one  to  the  other,  this  niglit  we  will  venture ; 
And  says  little  Gibble-Gabble,  I  long  for  to  go, 
But  first  I  will  call  on  my  neighbour  Swing-toe. 
And  0  I  you  Fulbourn  farmers  0  ! 

"  In  the  dead  of  the  night  tin's  thievish  crew 
Broke  into  the  church,  as  other  thieves  do, 
For  to  steal  the  bells  and  sell  them  all, 
May  the  d — 1  take  s\ich  churchwardens  all. 
And  0  !  you  Fulbourn  farmers  0  ! 

"This  ballad  is  said  to  have  been  the  production  of  one  William  Rolfe, 
a  labourer.  It  was  Y)robably  written  soon  after  the  act  passed.  The  new 
peal  was  brought  home  on  the  9th  of  May,  1776,  so  that  it  was  not  a  year 
from  the  passing  of  tlie  act  to  the  casting  of  the  bells.  After  the  bill  had 
been  perused  by  counsel  Mr  Edward  Hancock,  the  rector's  churchwarden, 
conducted  it  through  both  Houses  of  Parliament  without  the  expense  ,of  a 
solicitor  ;  Sir  John  Cotton,  one  of  tlie  members  for  the  county,  forwarding 
it  in  the  difierent  skiges  througb.  the  House  of  Commons.  So  earnest  were 
the  populace  about  the  bells  (when  they  were  satisfied  they  were  to  have  a 
new  peal  of  six)  thnt.  after  they  were  loaded  they  di'ow  them  a  furlong  or 
more  before  the  horses  were  pnit  to  the  waggon.  The  tenor  was  cast  in 
G  sharp,  or  old  A.  "Mr  Edmund  Andrews  Salisbury  rode  on  the  great  bell 
when  it  was  draAvii  u[)  within  the  steeple,  and  his  was  the  first  death  this 
bell  was  rung  foi';  lie  was  buried  8th  July,  1776.  The  motto  on  this 
bell  is 

"  I  to  the  church  the  living  call, 
^'ad  to  the  grave  I  sunnuon  all." 


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147 


Mr  Charles  Dawson  was  the  author  of  the  complete  peal  of  Plain  Boh, 
called  *  The  Fulbourii  Surprise,'  with  154  bobs,  two  singles  and  720  changes. 
The  peal  was  opened  December  V,  1789. 

95.  GAMLINGAY. 

BtMary,  '  'o  Bells. 

1.  +  MILES  +  GRAYE  +  MADE  +  ME  +  1G53  +  NICHOLAS  +  MEADE. 

2.  +  MILES  +  GRAYE  +  MADE  +  ME  +  1 053  ijl  E  if  A. 

3.  +  MILES  +  GRAYE  +  MADE  +  ME  +  1G53  +  J  +  P  :{:  J  +  A. 

4.  RICHARD  CHANDLER  MADE  ME  1699. 

5.  MILES  +  GRAYE  +  MADE  +  ME  +  1653.  GEORGE  +  BVRY  +  STE.  + 
APTHORPE  +  CIIVRCH  WARDENS. 

96.  GIRTON. 

;S^^  Andrevj.  4  Bells  and  Clock  Bell. 

1.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  16 7-. 

2.  CHARLES  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1G99. 

3.  +  NON  CLAMOR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI  1619. 

\  \  ~w^\  \  \  mm:ssmM-\  \  :  'mm- 

Clock  Bell.    (No  inscription.) 
One  of  tliese  bells  is  cracked. 

97.  G0REF3ELD. 

St  Paid,  1  Bell 

Bell  presumably  modern. 

98.  GRANSDEN,  LITTLE. 

St  Peter  and  St  Paul  o  Bells. 

1-  LlJ  !ZIJ  S  □  IZi  3  Q  n  EIJ 

I  I   

2.  [□  63.]   x^inctc  iSccolauc  (!Dva  ^vo  iEoln's. 

3.  [+  81]  NON'  CLAMOR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI  :  :  1616. 

The  mutilated  i:  -.cription  on  the  treble  affords  a  fine  scope  for  the  al.iility 
of  the  rising  caiii])ai.al(igist. 


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THE  CHUECH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


99.  GRANTCHESTER. 

St  Marij.  3  Bells. 

1.  GOD  SAVE  THY  CHVRCH  1610. 

2.  JOHN  DARBIE  MADE  ME  1G77. 

3.  (No  mscriptioii.) 

Diameter  Circumference  Height  to   Height  to  top 
at  rim.        at  ribbon.       slioulder.     of  cannons. 

^.        .  f  1.    27  in.  475  in.  20  in.  27i  in. 

Dimensions.    -{  ^  .  .  .  . 

i  3.    32^-  m.  55|  m.  23*  m.  28|  m. 

Thus  in  the  tenor,  thougli  probably  an  ancient  bell,  the  diameter  has  a 
slightly  larger  ratio  to  the  height  to  the  shoulder  than  in  the  treble. 


100.  GRAVELEY. 

St  Botolph.  4  Bells. 

1.  GOD  OF  HIS  MARGE  HEARETII  VS  ALL  [16]24. 

2.  WHEN  VPON  THAT  WE  DOE  CALL.  1G24. 

3.  0  PRIESE  THE  LORD  THEAREFORE  I  SAY  1G24. 

4.  I  SOVND  VNTO  THE  LIVING  WHEN  THE  SOVLE  DOTII  PARTA  WAY 
{sic)  1G24. 

The  handiwork  of  William  Hausley ;  identified  by  his 


101.  GUYHIRN. 

Bt  Mary  Magdalen.  1  Bell. 

1.    I  have  110  note  of  this  bell. 


102.  HADDENHAM. 

I-I0I2/  Trinity.  G  Bells. 

1.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  1706.      ROBERT  KEY  C.  W. 

2.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1706.     THOMAS  HVCKLE  C.  W. 

3.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  1706. 

4.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTAS.  J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1741.  MATT. 
SCARBOROUGH  MINISTER,  J.  MORRIS,  J.  REED  CHURCHWARDENS. 

5.  SILVESTER  COLE  AND  JOHN  PORTER  C.  W.     THO.  NEWMAN  MADE 

ME  1725. 

6.  ALL  GLORY  J  MCE  TO  GOD  ON  HIGH. 

EDWARD  MAliCALL,  DANIELL  GOOLD  WARDENS  1657  [border  86], 
[□  84]  W  G  N  M. 

Weight  of  Tenor  lO  cwt.,  diameter  421,111.    Note  F. 


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149 


103.  HARDWICK. 

St  Mary,  8  Bells. 

1.  PETER  WIIITTET  CIIURCHWAEDEX.  ROBT.  TAYLOR  FOUNDER 
1797. 

2.  3.  PETER  WHITTET  CHURCIIWARDEN.  ROBT.  TAYLOR  ST  NEOTS 
FOUNDER  1797. 


104.  HARLTON. 

The  Assumption  of  the  Virgin.  3  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.  PEACE  BE  WITHIN  THY  WALLS  1856.  C.  AND  G.  MEARS 
FOUNDERS  LONDON. 

Three  bells  before  1856.  Dates  of  the  old  2nd  and  3rd  1622  and  1636, 
recorded  by  Mr  Sperling. 


105.  HARSTON. 

All  Saints.  4  Bells. 

1.  3IIL0NEM  GRiVYE  ME  FECIT  1634. 

2.  THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1717. 

3.  JOHN  ADAMS -WILLIAM.  SIIARPE.CHVRCIIWARDENS  1684. 

The  3rd  probably  from  Haddenham,  when  Christopher  Grayc  was  passing 
on  his  founchy  to  Charles  Newman.  The  inscription  on  the  Tenor  is  awsten 

BRACKER  MAD  ME. 


106.  HASLINGFIELD. 

All  Saints.  5  Bells. 

1.  OLD  FIRST  AND  SECOND,  CAST  1668.     THOMAS  WEND  YE  K.  B. 

2.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.  J.  ARNOLD  AND  T.  SCRUBY  C. 
W.  1816. 

3.  OLD  THIRD  CAST  1615.  WILLIAM  WENDYE  ARMIGER,  R.  TAYLOR, 
ST  NEOTS,  181^>. 

4.  THIS  TEAL  WAS  RECAST  BY  ROBT.  TxVYLOR,  ST  NEOTS,  1816. 

5.  GEORGE  lOHN,  EARL  DEL^^WARR,  J.  ARNOLD  AND  T.  SCRUBY,  C. 
W.  1816,  THE  5/  m  YEAR  OF  THE  REIGN  OF  GEORGE  THE  THIRD. 


150 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


On  Thomas  Wendye's  monument  is  this  epitaph  : — 

Quo  Luctu?    Qua  laude  tuum  quo  marnioro  nomeu 
Perpetuem  nisi  stem  marmor  et  ipsa  tibi  1 

Ars,  Amor,  Ingenium,  Samptus  te  rcddere  vultu 
Cei'tant,  te  possit  reddere  mente  nihil. 


107.    HATLEY,  EAST. 

St  Denys.  1  Bell 

1.    (No  inscription.) 

Augmentation  Office,  Miscellaneous  Books,  Vol.  495. 
"Est  hatley.— 
Belles  Itm  in  ye  steple  there... iij  bells." 


108.  HAUXTON. 

St  Edmund.  3  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.     MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  IGGG. 


109.  HILDERSHAM. 

Holy  Trinity.  8  Bells. 

1.  IN  PIAM  MEMORIAM  IN  USUM  ECCLESIyE  IN  MAJOREM  GLORIAM 
DEI  PATRIS  FILII  ET  SPIRITUS  SANCTI  ELISABETH  IIEMINGTON  DEDIT 
1880.      JOHN  TAYLOR  &  CO.  FOUNDERS  LOUGHBOROUGH  1880. 


9 


IN   PIAM   MEAIORIAM   IN   USUM   ECCLESIyE  IN  MAJOllEM  GLORIAM 


DEI  PATRIS  FILII  ET  SPIRITUS  SANCTI  SARAH  GOODWIN  DEDIT  1880. 
JOHN  TAYLOR  k  CO.  FOUNDERS  LOUGHBOROUGH  1880. 

3.  IN  PIAM  MEMORIAM  IN  USUM  ECCLESI^  IN  MAJOREM  GLORIAM 
DEI  PATRIS  FILII  ET  SPIRITUS  SANCTI  FRANCES  GOODWIN  DEDIT  1880. 
JOHN  TAYLOR  &  CO.  FOUNDERS  LOUGHBOROUGH  1880. 


Weights    ■{  2. 


cwt. 

qrs. 

lbs. 

6 

0 

9 

7 

2 

16 

10 

3 

4 

24 

2 

1 

Here  in  1869  Hutc  were  pits  for  three,  but  only  one  boll  remained, 
dated  1581,  and  snid  to  resemble  the  treble  at  Coton. 


THE  CnUPtCIT  BELLS 


OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


151 


no.    HINTON,  CHERRY. 

St  Andrew.  5  Bells. 

1.      WALTER  SEROCOLD  ESQR.  FRA.  ELLARD  G.  W.  1727. 

3.  gjubdate  IDco  omni's  ^Oopuhis  tcrrc. 

4.  ^oI)u  '(Ilnplcv  nnb  S^on  j?ountfcvs  Houctljliovoucii),  1853. 

5.  T.  MEARS  LONDON  FECIT  1828.      REVD.  STEPHEN  DAVIS  CURATE 

THOS.  SUMPTR.  HEADLEY  ) 

}  CHURCHWARDENS. 
GEORGE  BULLIN  j 

The  beading  on  tlie  treble  resembles  tbcat  on  Penn's  little  peal  in  Ely 
Cathedral.    The  words  "Fra.  Ellard"  are  rudely  incised. 

Figs.  16  and  17  give  representations  of  the  lettering  on  the  upper 
and  lower  lines  respectively  of  the  inscription  on  the  2nd. 

The  tenor  is  said  to  be  a  sweet-toned  bell. 

This  peal  is  incorrectly  reported  by  Blomefield  and  in  Parker's 
Churches  of  Camhridgesldre. 


II.  HINXTON. 

St  Mary.  2  Bells  and  a  Priest's  Bell. 

1.  MILES  GRAVE  MADE  ME  1G67. 

2.  MILES  GRAVE  MADE  ME  1GG5. 

Priest's  bell.  (Inaccessible.) 

The  remaining  bells  are  the  two  trebles  of  a  peal  of  five. 


12.  HISTON. 

St  Andretu.  6  Bells  and  a  Clock  Bell. 

1.  JOHN  WARNER  AND  SONS  LONDON  1873,  (pATENt)  (rOYAL  ARMS.) 

2.  3.  4.  5.  6.    john  warner  and  sons  london,  186g. 
(patent)  (royal  arms). 

Olock  bell.    t.  osborn  downham  fecit,  1781. 
Details  supplied  by  Messrs  Warner. 


Diameter 

Note 

Weiglit 

cwt.  (irs. 

lbs 

1. 

27-|in. 

4 

3 

G 

2. 

29  in. 

i|E 

5 

2 

.5 

3. 

30  in. 

5 

2 

3 

4. 

31  in. 

5 

3 

2 

5. 

33|in. 

ibB 

C 

1 

10 

6. 

36^  in. 

8 

0 

0 

152 


THE  CHUKCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


On  the  old  peal : — 

1.  TIIO.  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1723. 

2.  CANTABO  LAUDES  TUAS  DOMINE  PER  ATRIA. 

3.  4.      X  RICARDVS  BOWLER  ME  FECIT  1604. 

5.      WILLIAM  PECK  AND  ROBERT  READ  CIIVRCII  WARDENS  1683,  W,  B. 

When  I  visited  this  tower  in  1854  Bowler's  two  bells  were  the  only 
ones  remaining  whole. 

113.  HORNINGSEY. 

St  Peter.  4  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.     J.  TAYLOR  AND  CO.  BELL  FOUNDERS  LOUGHBOROUGH  1871. 

4.  JOHANES  DRAPER  ME  FECIT  1608,  [□79]. 

The  first  three  were  cracked  when  I  saw  them  in  1830.  The  in- 
scriptions were : 

1.  I.  II.  MADE  ME  1654.     JOHN  CHRISPE  C.  W. 

2.  ^  tI)omas-tirnp£r-inatJc  me-1590. 

3.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1680. 

The  star  on  the  old  2nd  had  wavy  rays,  and  the  stop  was  something 
like  a  pine-apple. 


114.  HORSEHEATH. 

All  Saints.  4  Bells. 

1.  1700. 

2.  SR.  GILES  ALINGTON  GAVE  THE  TENOR  1606.  1700. 

3.  THO.  PVRKIS  TIIO.  RVLE  C.  W.  1699. 

4.  T.   SAFFORD  CAMBRIDGE  MDCCCXXV  W.  SANGSTER  J.  LAWRENCE 

C.  w. 

115.  ICKLETON. 

St  Mary  Magdalene.  6  Bells  and  a  Priest's  Bell. 

1.  JAMES  KEATII  AND  HENRY  HANCIIETT  CHURCHWARDENS  LESTER 
AND  PACK  OF  LONDON  FECIT  1761. 

2.  THOMAS  >  ;;\VMAN  OP  NORWICH  MADE  ME  1729. 

3.  WILLI  A. M  CHAPMAN  LONDON  FECIT  1781. 

4.  JOHN  JLAiA'lY  AND  MATTHIAS  RIPSTER  CHURCHWARDENS  LESTER 
AND  PACK  FECIT  I  7o5. 


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153 


5.  I  TELL  ALL  THAT  DOTII  ME  SEE 

THAT  NEWMAN  OF  NORWICH  NEW  CAST  ME  1729. 

6.  CHARLES  SHEPHERD  AND  ROBERT  MILLER  CHURCnWARDENS 
1751.      THOMAS  LESTER  OF  LONDON  FECIT. 

Weight  of  Tenor  IScwt.,  diameter  47  in.    Note  F. 

116.  IMPINGTON. 

St  Andreiu.  3  Bells. 

1.  [flenr-de-lis]  [□  56]  +  Statute  ^ctrc  Oxn  53ro  i^oln's. 

2.  [□  21  □  22  □  23  □  2-t]. 

+  [□  19]  [crowned  fleur-de-lis]  S^aiUta  BatCftna  ^^ta  1^X0 

3.  R.  G.  MADE  ME  1652.  - 

The  Tenor  has  a  three-legged  pot  at  the  beginning  of  the  inscription. 


117.  ISLEHAM. 

St  Andrew.  5  Bells  and  a  Clock  Bell. 

1.  2.  1516. 

3.  On  shoulder  thrice  [□  49]. 

sec  :  (jabn'cl  :  ova  p  ai'abs  3iol)i's  bcrnavi?  wxiMt  ct  clcne 
u.xts  (uc  :  xt  iI)om£.pci3tOR-avmi'gt  :  ct  luargarctc  u.xfs  fuc ;  ftlic 
ct  {)crciJ-pti{ctor         ct :  cknc. 

and  two  shields  of  arms  (o)  (1)  and  (4)  Bernard  (2)  and  (3)  ,  in  pale  with 

 ,  (a  demi-bearl  rampant) 

■  (jS)  Peijton,  in  pale  with  (o) 

These  shields  are  also  on  the  tombs  of  John  Bernard  (ob.  1451),  and 
Thomas  Peyton  (ob.  1484)  in  the  church. 

4.  THE  REVD.  JOHN  BRAHAM  ISAACSON  RECTOR,  JOHN  KNIGHT  AND 
JOHN  SHELDRICK  CII.  WARDENS  1819. 

5.  JOHN  DARBIE  xMADE  ME  W.  W,  1680.  WILLIAM  ADAMS  C.  W.  I. 
0.  JOSEPH  SIIARPE. 

Clock  Bell.    [  □  19]  four  times  on  shoulder. 

H-sauctc  (coiM^  ::,lnUv!a  (coin)  ora  (coin)  pro  [sic). 

The  date  1510  o.i  the  treble  and  2nd  is  very  early  for  Arabic  nume- 
rals; but  in  the  shi.ae  of  Bishop  Alcock  (ob.  1501)  at  Ely  1'.-^.  118  {sic) 
is  referred  to. 


154 


TPIE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


The  old  4th  before  its  recasting  by  Dobson  of  Downham,  is  said  to 
have  been  similar  to  the  3rd.  From  the  invocation  of  the  angel  Ga].)nel 
on  the  3rd  it  may  be  supposed  to  have  been  nsed  as  an  Angelus^  Gabriel, 
or  Ave  Bell,  which  appears  to  have  been  rung  in  many  places  thrice  a  day 
to  remind  the  people  of  the  benefits  of  the  Incarnation.  In  this  case 
intercessory  prayers  for  the  persons  named  on  the  bell  would  be  added 
to  the  usual  ^1  ve  and  Fate?-  noster. 

These  prayers  for  the  souls  of  givers  of  bells  (inter  alia)  are  censured  by 
Roy  in  Rede  me  and  he  nott  ivroth,  1528  (Arbor's  Reprints- iv.  GO). 

"And  so  redynge  a  ragge  man's  roule 
He  exhorteth  to  praye  for  the  soule 

Of  this  persone  and  of  that 
Which  gave  boke  bell  or  challes 
To  the  fortheraunce  of  goddis  serves 

Babblynge  he  wotteth  neare  what." 

It  is  worthy  of  note  that  when  the  tower  of  this  church  fell  down,  a 
few  years  ago,  not  one  of  the  bells  was  broken.  The  peal  hanging  in 
the  new  tower  is  identical  with  that  of  which  I  took  notes  33  years  ago. 

An  unusually  gi'and  peal,  of  deep  and  solemn  tone.  Tenor  in  F, 
weight  said  to  be  25  cwt. 


118.  KENNETT. 

St  Nicholas.  3  Bells. 

1.  CIIArvLES  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1707. 

2.  (No  inscription.) 

.  [nSO]  thrice  on  shoulder. 

3.  [  +  40]  illcritis  Gtounbi  [041]  ^tmiis  a  orvi'minc 

The  2nd  is  probably  an  old  bell.  The  letters  M  and  C  are  engraved 
in  figs.  47  and  42. 

119.  KINGSTON. 

All  Saints  and  St  Andrew.  3  Bells. 

1.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  IGGG. 

2.  [049]  thrice  on  shoulder. 

3.  (coin;)  [065]  (coin)  [066]. 

The  S  ow  i'li-  2iid  is  engraved  in  fig.  53.  On  the  tenor  tlie  coin.T 
and  gridiron  (luuidle  downwards)  are  on  the  waist,  and  the  fleur-de-lis 
near  the  rim. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CA3IBRIDGESHIIIE. 


155 


120.  KIRTLING. 

All  Saints.  5  Belh. 

1.  2.  4.  5.     MILES  GRAIE  FECIT  1G38. 

3.     GEORGE  DOBITO  CIIURCIIWARDEX.     WILLIAM  DOBSOX  FOUNDER 

1819. 

The  executors  of  "Ricliard  Pytchye  of  Kertljng"  (ob.  1521)  "leide 
out  to  Robt.  Warren  for  ye  bell  xxs."  See  Tymiiis'.-s  Wills  aud  Inven- 
tories of  tlie  Sudbmy  Archdeaconry. 


121.  KNAPWELL. 

All  Saints.  1  Hell. 

1.  [A  modern  bell  cast  out  of  three  old  ones,  probably  (says  Mr 
Sperling)  by  Mears.] 


122.  LANDBEACH. 

All  Saints.  4  Bells, 

1.  2,     JOnX  DRARER  MADE  xME  1619. 

3.  [c74:]  DE  [oTj]  bvri  [075]  santi  [d7o]  edmondi  [dTo]  ste- 
FANvs  [o7b]  Toxxi  [dl 5]  ME  [o7 o]  FECIT  [oTo]  w.  L.  [oT-ij  1577 

[□75]  FAYET  [075]  lOVA  [075]  ROPVLO  [75]  SVG, 

4.  3^ps  +  ^Scrpctuc  (coin)  Bet  (coin)  i^obtS  (coin)  6autiia 
(coin)  mitt. 

[□G4] 

The  fu'st  three  are  cracked.    Diameter  of  Tenor  38  in.    Note  G. 


123.  LANDV/ADE. 

St  Xicholas.  2  Bells. 

1.  HEC  TVBA  COTTOXI  EST  LAXDWADI  DIDITA  F.VXO  1602. 

2.  [doO]  tlirice  on  shoulder. 

[  +  40]  ITirgmi's  '^grcgi'e  [^41]  Focor  Campana  iilanc. 

The  C  and  M  on  tbe  2nd  are  engraved  in  figs,  42  and  47. 


15G  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


124.  LEVERINGTON. 

St  Leonard  and  St  John.  G  Bells. 

1.  LET  YOUR  NOTES  FROM  EARTH  REBOUND 
THAT  HEAVEN  MAY  HEAR  THE  JOYFUL  SOUND. 

THOMAS  LESTER  AND  T^  PACK  OF  LONDON  MADE  US  ALL,  1752. 

2.  THOMAS  LESTER  AND  T.  PACK  FECIT,  1752. 

3.  OSBORN  AND  DOBSON  MAKERS,  1808. 

4.  THOMAS  LESTER  AND  T.  PACK  FECIT,  1752. 

5.  THOMAS  LESTER  AND  T.  PACK  FECIT,  1752.  MR  SIMON  HARDV 
AND  MR  DANIEL  WILSON  CII.  WARDENS. 

6.  LESTER  AND  PACK  OF  LONDON  FECIT,  1752.  J.  JOHNSON  AND  WM. 
OSBORN  CHURCH  WARDENS. 

"Weight  of  Tenor,  17  cwt. 


125.  LINTON. 

St  Mary.  5  Bells  and  a  ClocJc  Bell 

1.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1617. 

2.  MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  lGG-1. 

3.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1630. 

4.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1665. 

5.  CIIKS.  LONSDALE  MINISTER  HENRY  TWIN  xVND  THOS.  HAjlMOXD 
CHURCinVARDENS,  1751.  TIIOS.  LESTER  AND  T.  PACK  OF  LONDON  FECIT 
LAUDO  DEUM  VERUM. 

Clock  Bell.   +  graiuta  iilavia  ova  pro  noibs  [sic). 

Weight  of  Tenor  16  cwt.    Diameter  44  in.    Note  F. 


126.  LITLINGTON. 

St  Catltarine.  5  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  WAYLETT  MADE  ME  1710. 

2.  JOHN  BONNETT  C.  W.  1710.  J.  W. 

3.  4.      SIT  NOMEN  DOMINI  BENEDICTUM,  1710. 

5.      PERMULTIS  ANNIS  RESONET  CAMPANA  JOIIANNIS. 

A  bad  c:isting  by  Aya}lett  wlio  i^robably  repeated,  witli  a  slight 
variation  i';  iIi.'  case  of  the  Tenor,  the  inscri[)tions  Avhich  he  found  on  tlio 
loAver  tln-cc.  Two  great  pieces  are  knocked  out  of  the  rim  of  the  Tenor, 
showing  tlie  metal  all  honey-combed.  One  of  tlie  others  is  in  no  better 
case. 


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127.  LITTLEPORT. 

St  George.  4  Bells, 

1.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1640. 

2.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1622. 

3.  JOHN  DRAPER  MADE  ME  1624. 

4.  HENRY  TANSLEY  JOHN  CRABB  CHURCHWARDENS.  T.  OSBORN 
FECIT  1790. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  9  cwt.    Diameter  38  in.   Note  G. 

Pccal  imperfect.  The  Trcblo  out  of  all  proportion  to  the  Tenor.  Query 
2  bells  sold.    (K.  H.  S.) 


128.  LITTLEPORT. 

St  Mattheiu.  1  Bell. 

1.    (No  inscription.) 

"Weight  about  1  cwt.    Cost  with  fittings  £15.  55. 


129.  LOLWORTH. 

All  Saints.  3  Bells. 

1.  1703.- 

2,  3.    (No  inscription.) 

Pits  for  four  bells.    These  three  probably  by  Richard  Kecne. 


130.  MADINGLEY. 

St  Mary.  3  Bells. 

1.  [+  8.  saltireways]     ^  ^  m  [□  ^1 

2,  3.     T.  TYMBS  AND  K,  STEPHENS  C.  W.     THO,  NEWMAN  MADE  ME 

1723. 


158 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


131.  MANEA 

St  •  1  Bell 

1.    (Chapel  rebuilt  1791.) 


132.  MARCH. 

St  John.  '  1  Bell 

1.    (Modern.    Small.    No  inscription,) 

133.  MARCH. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell 

(Modern.) 


134.  MARCH. 

St  Peter.  1  Bell 

(Modern.) 

135.  MARCH. 

St  Wenclreda.  G  Bells. 

1.  IN  wedlock's  bands  all  ye  who  join 

WITH  HANDS  YOUR  HEARTS  UNITE 
so  SHALL  OUR  TUNEFUL  TONGUES  COMBINE 
TO  LAUD  THE  NUPTIAL  RITE. 
THOMAS  OSBORN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK,  FECIT,  1802. 

2.  LET  US  LIFT  UP  OUR  VOICE  WITH  JOY. 
THOMAS  OSBORN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK,  FECIT,  1802. 

3.  LONG  LIVE  KING  GEORGE  THE  III. 

THOMAS  OSBORN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK^  FECIT,  1802. 

4.  GIVE  NO  OFFENCE  TO  THE  CHURCH. 

THOMAS  OSBORN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK,  FECIT,  1802. 

5.  OUR  VOICES  SHALL  WITH  CHEERFUL  SOUND 
MAKE  HILLS  AND  VALLEYS  ECHO  ROUND. 

THOMAS  OSBORN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK,  FECIT,  1802. 
G.     I  TO  Tir  i::  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 

AND  TO  '!MfE  GRAVE  I  SUMMON  ALL. 
THOMAS  OSJI'AILN,  DOWNHAM,  NORFOLK,  FECIT,  1802. 

Weight  of  To  ^or  19  cwt.    Diameter  47  inches.    Note  E. 


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150 


136.  MELBOURNE. 

All  Sairits.  5  Bells. 

1.  +  JESVS  BE  OVR  SPEEDE  1615. 

2.  +  GOD  SAVE  THE  KING  IGlo. 

3.  +  PRAISE  THE  LORD  ICIG.  , 

4.  JOHN  BRIANT,  HERTFORD,  FECIT  1789.     JOHN  HITCH,  ESQ.  C.W. 

5.  RICHARD  CHANDLER  MADE  JIE  1G88. 

Mr.  Sperling  greatly  praises  the  Tenor.  The  lirst  three  arc  marked 
with  a  shield  bearing  an  arrow  in  pale  between  a  cross  and  a  fleur-de-lis  in 
chief,  and  the  letters  R.  0.  half-way  down.  Weight  of  Tenor  18  cwt. 
Diameter  47  in.,  Note  F. 


137.  MELDRETH. 

The  Holy  Trinitii.  4  Belh. 

1,  2.     JOHN'  TAYLOR  &  SON  FOUNDERS  LOUGIIIiORO'  1855. 

3.  16C2. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  10  cwt..  Diameter  39  in.,  Note  G. 


138.  MEPAL. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell 

1.    (No  inscription.) 

One  bell  in  a  double  bell-cot.  The  church  was  rebuilt  in  1819,  when 
the  bell,  being  cracked,  was  recast. 


139.  MILTON. 

All  Saints.  :3  Bells. 

1.      MILES  GRAYI'  ^lADE  ME  1GG5. 
•2.      THOMAS  Nl'WMAX  MADE  ME  1717. 
3.      NON  CLAMOR  S'.;J>  AMOil  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI.  IGOl. 


160  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


141.    MORDEN,  STEEPLE. 

St  Peter  and  St  Paul  1  Bell 

1.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1773.  PATRl  UNICO  DEO 
SACRUM. 

The  fine  old  tower  tliat  gave  its  distinctive  name  to  this  churcli  fell  in 
the  reign  of  James  II.,  and  has  never  been  rebuilt.  The  bull  hangs  in  a 
lower  tower  above  the  porch. 


143.  NEWMARKET. 

All  Saints.  5  Bells. 

1,  2,  3,  4.      .JOHN  THORNTON  SUDBURY  FECIT  1720. 

5.      JAS.    SHADE,    CH.    NORMAN,    CH.    WDS.    JOHN    THORNTON  FECIT 

1720. 


144.    NEWTON  (IN-THE-ISLE). 

St  James.  G  Bells. 

1,  2,  3,  4.     T.  OSBORN  FECIT  1786. 

5.  OUR  VOICES  SHALL  IN  CONCERT  RING 
IN  HONOUR  TO  OUR  GOD  AND  KING. 

6.  THOS.  SIIARPE  AND  SAML.  TAYLOR  CHURCHWARDENS.  T.  OSCORN 
FOUNDER,  DOUXIIAM,  1786. 

Weight  (»r  'fiiior,  12  cwt.  AVeight  of  the  peal,  38  cwt.  3  qrs.  2  lbs. 
Weight  of  the  u^'l  peal  of  five,  37  cwt.  18  lbs.    J/iS'.  Cola. 


140.    MORDEN,  GUILDEN.  I 

St  Mary.  6  Bells. 

1.  [□  U]  [□  35]  [nse].  g?{t  iSomcn  iBommi  ^Jenctii'ctum, 

2,  3.      RICHARD  CHANDLER  MADE  ME  1687.  j 

4.  JOHN  \VAYLETT  MADE  ME  1708.  |- 

5.  JOHANNES  W^AYLETT  ME  FECIT  1708.  | 

6.  [+81]  CVM  CANO  BVSTA  MORI  CVM  PVLPITA  VIVERE  DISCE  1G21.  \ 


142.  MURROW. 

Corj)usChristi.  1  Bell.  | 

Bell  presumably  modern. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIUE. 


IGl 


145.  NEWTON. 

St  Margaret.  3  Bells. 

1.  +  RICIIARDVS  BOWLER  ME  FECIT  1603, 

2.  [□  71  twice]       :m>M-mi  :m.mjK.- 

3.  [+  2G]  grum  3llofn  ^ulfnta  i^aavia  Focnta. 

The  letters  on  tlie  Tenor  arc  very  good,  and  crowned  with  fig.  20. 


146.  OAKINGTON. 

St  Andreiv.  4i  Bells. 

1.  3.     MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1655. 

2.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.  W.  IIEMINGTON  C.  W.  1748. 
t      ,  t  t 

4.     MILES  GRAIE  MADE  ME  1656. 

The  2nd  by  Joseph  Eayre.  Weight  of  Tenor  7  cwt.  Diameter  39  in., 
Note  A. 


147.  ORWELL. 

St  Andrew.  5  Bells. 

1.  CHARLES  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1694.  JAMES  SWANN  AND  JOHN 
MERRY  C.  W. 

2.  +  NON  :  CLAMOR  :  SED  :  AxMOR  :  CANTAT  :  IN  :  AVRE  :  DEI  :  1616. 

3.  MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1663. 

4.  +  NON  CLAMOR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI.  1629. 

5.  TOBY  NORRIS  CAST  ME  1629. 

-f  GOD  SAVE  THE  KING.     W.  HOLDER  W.  FAIRCIIILD  C.  W. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  13  cwt.    Diameter  40  in.    Note  Fj. 


148.  OVER. 

St  Mary.  6  Bells  a.nd  Sanctus  Bell 

1.  1819. 

2.  3.     ROBT.  TA\  l.Oll  AND  SON  FOUNDERS  1819. 

R.  11 


162 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


4.  ROBERT  ADAMS  OVERSEER  1819. 

5.  ROBT.  TAYLOR  AND  SON  ST  NEOTS  RECAST  THIS  PEAL  MAY  28 
1819.      LEVITT  INGLETT  AND  INGLE  ROBINSON  CHURCH  WARDENS. 

6.  I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 

&  TO  THE  GRAVE  I  SUMMON  ALL.  1819. 

Sauctus  Bell  (apparently  no  inscription). 
"Weight  of  Tenor  14  cwt. 


149.  PAMPISFORD. 

St  John  Baptist.  4  Bells. 

1.  2.     THOMAS  MEARS  LONDON  FECIT  1841. 

3.  C.  AND  G.  MEARS  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1848. 

4.  J.  EAYRE  FECIT  1743.      HIS  NAZARENUS  REX  JUDEORUM. 

Tenor  in  GJ.    The  old  3rd  ^Yas  by  John  Draper,  1615. 


150.    PAPWORTH  ST  AGNES. 

Bt  John  Baptist  2  Bells. 

1.  THOMAS  NORRIS  MADE  ME  1G37. 

2.  THOMAS  CATER  ESQVIRE  1G37.      ROBART  BERRIE  RECTOR. 


151.    PAPWORTH  EVERARD. 

Bt  Peter.  1  Bell  and  a  Friesfs  Bell. 

1.     MEARS  AND  STAINBANK  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1873. 
IN  MEMORY  OF  FRANCIS  MADRYLL  CHEERE  WHO  DIED  OCTOBER  30t]I 
1872.      AGED  GO. 

Priest's  Bell.    Joseph  eayre     saint  neots  fecit  1743  (coin). 


152.    PARSON  DROVE. 

St  John  Jh'ptlst. 

1.  (No  inscri])tion.) 

2.  T.  OSBOii  ^  FECIT. 


o  Bells. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMimiDGESHlIlE. 


1G3 


3.  T.  OSBORN  FECIT  1787.  THE  RECASTING  THE  GIFT  OF  THE 
REVD.  J.  DICKINSON,  RECTOR  OF  PARSON  DROVE. 

4.  T.  OSBORN,  1787. 
PERCUTE  DULCE  CANO. 

5.  T.  OSBORN,  DOWNIIAM,  NORFOLK. 

'  EDMD.  JOnNSON  ^ 

>  CIIURCJIWARDENS. 
W.  HOLMES  j 

Weight  of  Tenora2  cwt. 


153.  PRiCKWILLOW. 

St  Peter.  1  Bell. 

1.    I.  w.  1691. 

The  initials  of  John  Wood,  Bell-founder. 


154.  QUY. 

St  Mary,  o  Bells, 

1.  2.  3.     JOHN  DARBIE  MADE  ME  1670. 

4.  JOHN  DARBIE  MADE  ME  T.  A. 

5.  .  JOHN  DARBIE  MADE  ME  1670. 

Unutro  IDcum  l^cnuu. 
^opulum  boco  £ongr£(^o  dcrum. 

Here  is  a  modern  Sanctus  hell  cot,  made  of  rod  bri(;k. 


155.  RAMPTON, 

All  Saints.  8  Bells. 

1.     THOMAS  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  J.  RULE  J.  MARSHALL  C.  W.  1713. 

Diameter  of  Teller  30  inches.    Note  B. 


164 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIIIE. 


156.  REACH. 

Holy  Trinity.  1  Bell. 

Bell  presumably  modern.  Church  built  on  the  ruins  of  an  ancient 
chapel,  of  which  the  east  end  remains. 


157.  SAWSTON. 

St  Mary.      .  ,  6  Bells. 

1.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  XEOTS  FECIT  1775.  RD.  ROBINSON  AND 
RICHARD  FARBANK  C,  W. 

2.  3.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1774.  WM.  TAYLOR  AND 
RD,  ROBINSON  C.  W. 

4.  EDWARD  ARNOLD  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1774.  DO  JUSTLY  LOVE 
MERCY  AND  WALK  HUMBLY  WITH  THY  GOD. 

5.  JOHN  AND  CHRISTOPHER  IIODSON  MADE  ME  1678.  JAMES  SWANN 
JOHN  CORBY  C.  W. 

6.  JOHN  HOWELL,  W.  TAYLOR,  C.  ^\.  1755.  IHS.  NAZARENUS  REX 
JUDEORUM. 

The  Tenor  by  Joseph  Eayre,  "Weight  c.  13  cwt.  Diameter  II  in.  Xote  G. 


158.   SHELFORD,  GREAT. 

St  Mary.  5  Bells. 

1.  ma^ie  at  cnmtiritige 

1590. 

2.  cast  by  john  w^arner  and  sons  london  1875. 

(royal  arms)  (patent). 

3.  (iSTo  inscription.) 

4.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  167-. 

5.  3jo])n  IDrapcr  matJe  m  1614. 

Tenor  in  G.  Mr  L'Estrange  {Church  Bells  of  Nor  foil;  p.  40)  notes  the 
identity  of  the  lettering  on  the  treble  and  tenor.  If  this  be  so,  the  former 
is  probably  by  Thdrnas  Draper.  There  were  heads  of  a  king  and  queen 
on  the  old  2nd. 


THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  1G5 

159.   SHELFORD,  LITTLE. 

All  Saints.  5  Bells. 

1.  1703. 

2.  5.  1701. 

3.  RICARDVS  HOLDFELD  ME  .FECIT  [+13]  HENEY  WRYESLE  EARLE 
OF  SOVTHAMPTVNN  1612.- 

4.  CRISTOFOR  WOODGATE  C.  W.  1701. 

Henry  WriotHesly,  Earl  of  Southampton,  succeeded  to  the  title  in  1581, 
and  died  in  1624. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  15  cwt.    Note  D. 


160.  SHEPRETH. 

All  Saints. '  3  Bells. 

1.  1700. 

2.  1623.     GOD  OF  HIS  MERSY  HEARETH  VS  ALL 

3.  1623.     WHEN  VPON  IIIM  THAT  WEE  DOE  CALL. 

The  treble  only  remained  in  the  tower  in  1864,  the  2nd  and  3rd  being 
on  the  floor  of  the  Church.  They  are  William  Hausley's  make,  distin- 
guishable by  his  J~N-^J[ 


161.  SHINGAY. 

St  Mary.  Ecolesia  destructa. 


162.  SILVERLEY. 

All  Saints.  Ecclesia  destructa. 


163.  SNAILWELL. 

St  Peter.  3  Bells. 

1.  2.    (No  inscription.) 

3.    [049]  thrice  on  shoulder. 

[  +  54]  ^anctc-^petre-i^ra-po-iaobts. 

The  smallest  bell  r  uiy  have  been  a  sanctus  bell.  It  is  not  hung.  The 
S  is  engraved  in  fig.  5  ;. 


166  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIIIE. 


164.  SOUTHEA. 


Emmanuel. 


1  Bell 


Bell  presumably  modern. 


165.  SOHAM. 


>S^^  John  Baptist. 


10  Bells  and  Cloch  Bell 


1.  NEW  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  180S.  REVND.  II.  FISHER  VICAR,  J. 
DOBEDE  AND  R.  TEBEET  C.  W.      J.  BRIANT.  HARTFORD  FECIT. 

2.  NEW  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  1808.  REVND.  II.  FISHER  VICAR,  J.  DOBEDE 
R.  TEBBET  C.  W.      J.  BRIANT.  HARTFORD  FECIT. 

3.  4.  RECAST  BY  SUBSCRIPTION  1808.  II.  FISHER  VICxiR,  J.  DOBEDE 
AND  R.  TEBBET  C.  W.     JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT. 

5.      CUM  VOCO  VENITE.      T.  OSBORN  FECIT  1788. 
G.     T.  OSBORN  FECIT  1788.     LAUDATE  NOMEN. 

7.  WM.  PECHEY,  WM.  SIZER,  CHURCH  WARDENS.  T.  OSBORN  DOWN- 
IIAM,  NORFOLK  FECIT  1788. 

8.  V/M.   PECIIEY,  WM.  SIZER  CHURCH  WARDENS.     T.  OSBORN  FECIT 


WITH  HANDS  YOUR  HEARTS  UNITE 
•    SO  SHALL  OUR  TUNEFULL  TONGUES  COMBINE 
TO  LAUD  THE  NUPTIAL  RITE. 

TIIOS.  OSBORN  FECIT  1788. 
10.     THE  FEOFFEES  OF  BOND'S  CHARITY  PAID  120  POUNDS  TOWARDS 
RECASTING  THESE  BELLS.     T.  OSBORN  FECIT  1788. 
Clock  Bell.     T.  MEARS  OF  LONDON  FECIT  1826. 

Before  1788  there  was  a  peal  of  six  in  this  tower,  of  which  I  regret  to 
say  I  can  give  no  account. 


1788. 


9. 


IN  WEDLOCK  S  BANDS  ALL  YE  WHO  JOIN 


166.   STANTON,  LONG. 

All  Sail  lis. 


3  Bells. 


1.  2.  3.     MILES  GRAVE  ME  FECIT  1G37. 


Weight  of  Tvw'  r  c.  8  cwt.    Diameter  35  in.    Note  A. 


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107 


167.   STANTON,  LONG. 

St  Michael.  2  Bells. 

1.  2.    (No  inscription.) 

These  hang  in  a  bell-cot,  and  are  reported  as  "inaccessible  but  evi- 
dently blank"  by  Mr  E.  H.  Wollastoiv 


168.  STAPLEFORD. 

St  Andrew.  5  Bells. 

1.  jonx  noDsoN  made  me  lG5-i  r.  k.  ii.  b.  yemex. 

2.  MEARS  IS 45. 

3.  WILLIAM  KEMP  JAMES  EANKES  CKURCnWARDEXS  1G22  W.L.J.  D. 

4.  JOHN  AXSELL  JOIIX  BAXCKE3  1622.  W.  L. 

5.  C.  AND  G.  MEARS  FOUNDERS  LONDON  IS  IS. 

The  third  and  fourth  are  by  William  Land  and  John  Draper. 


169.  STETCHWORTH. 

St  Peter.  5  Bells. 

1.  2.      IGOS  GOD  SAVE  THY  CIIVRCII. 

3.  oml  fuf  lautict  ^~mx  omf  fuf  Iaut(ct  brTm. 

4.  [^49]  tlirica  on  sboiTlder. 

[  +  54]  ^muta -ilHavgavcta  •  0va-^3vo  -ii-obi's. 

5.  DE  BVRI  SANTI  EDMONDI  STEFANVS  TONNI  ME  FECIT.  15G4. 

Ps.  cl.  6.  Yulg.  Oninis  sjnritv.s  laudet  Dominum  is  on  a  beam  at  Shulbred 
Priory,  Sussex,  and  at  the  beginning  of  Byi'd's  Psalms  jSonncts  and  jSou^/s 
of  Sadness  and  Piety  (1588).  In  the  Pcedagogiis  of  Clemens  Alexandrinus 
(ii.  4)  is  a  characteristic  passage  wherein  he  connects  this  verse  vrith  the 
preceding  one,  which  was  often  in  later  days  applied  to  bells.  The  S  on 
the  4th  is  engraved  in  fig.  53. 


!70.   STOW,  LONG. 

St  Mary.  3  Bells. 

1.  +1  (coin)  S.   ^aiutc  faille  Ova  ^Ovo  PjMs. 

2.  JOUN  COOK.      ClIKISTOPIIER  GRAVE  MADE  ME  1G83, 


1 


1G8 


THE  CllUnCfl  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


3.     CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1682. 

2  and  3  are  cracked,  and  in  1874  had  been  removed  from  the  bell- 
chamber. 

The  initial  cross  and  small  cross  over  the  coin  are  engraved  in  the 
CJiurch  Bells  of  Norfoll-.,  p.  57.  See  also  L'Estrange's  remarks  at  p.  32,  and 
C.  B.  of  Northamptonsldrej  p.  68^,.. 


171.  STRETHAM. 

St  James.  4  Bells. 

1.  CAST  BY  JOHN  WARNER  AND  SONS  1876. 

H.  P.  J.  B.  D.  T.  G.  P. 

(royal  arms)  (patent). 

2.  joseph  eayre  st  neots  fecit  1766.  tiios.  thompson  john 
sennitt  c.  w. 

3.  william  walker  gent.  and  edward  morden  c.  w.  1727. 

4.  cast  by  john  warner  and  sons  1876. 

church  restored  and  this  bell  recast  1876.  hugh  pigot 
rector  j.  b.  dimock  t.  g.  parish  church  wardens. 

The  old  cracked  Treble  and  Tenor  were  respectively  inscribed  THo:\rAS 
DKArKii  1591  and  john  draper  made  me  1615.  A  broken  piece  of  tlie 
former  Aveighing  25  lbs.  was  used  for  many  years  in  a  farm  house  for  flat- 
tening.the  breasts  of  chickens. 


172.  STUNTNEY. 

Holy  Trinity.  1  Bell. 

I.     W.  DOBSON  DOWNHAM  FOUNDER  1807. 

The  bell  is  said  to  have  come  from  the  Lantern  of  Ely  Cathedral. 


173.  SUTTON. 

Bt  Andrew.  6  Bells. 

1.  WM.  DOK.^ON  DOWNHAM  NORFOLK  FECIT  1819. 

2.  MILES  <;i;ave  made  me  1654. 

3.  CHARLES   NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1691. 


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4.  CHARLES  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1700. 

5.  HENRY  PENN  FVNDATOR  1722.  PLEBEM  VOCO  CONGREGO  CLERVM. 
G.     DEFVNCTOS   PLANGO  VIVOS  MONEO   1722   D.   A.  PEACOCK  TIIOS. 

FAVX  C.  W.  ^ 

Weight  of  Tenor  18  cwt.    Diameter  46  in.    Note  E. 
The  4th  has  a  very  pretty  border,  with  a  shield,  Ermine^  three  lozenges 
in  fess. 


174.   SWAFFHAM  BULBECK. 

St  Mary.  6  Bells. 

1.  I  MEAN  TO  MAKE  IT  UNDERSTOOD 

THAT  TIIO'  I'm  little  YET  i'm  GOOD  1820. 

2.  IF  YOU  HAVE  A  JUDICIOUS  EAR 

you'll  own  our  VOICES  SWEET  AND  CLEAR  1820. 

3.  THE  OLD  FOUR  WERE  RECAST  INTO  A  PEAL  OF  SIX  BY  ROBT. 
TAYLOR  AND  SON  ST  NEOTS.      JULY  8tII  1820. 

4.  WHILST  THUS  WE  JOIN  IN  CHEARFUL  SOUND 
LET  LOVE  AND  LOYALTY  ABOUND. 

R.  TAYLOR  AND  SON  FOUND^"  lS20. 

5.  YE  PEOPLE  ALL  THAT  HEAR  US  RING 
BE  FAITHFUL  TO  YOUR  GOD  AND  KING. 

MR  BOWYER  AND  MR  INGLE  C.  W.  1820. 

6.  I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 
&  TO  THE  GRAVE  I  SUMMON  ALL. 

MR  BOWYER  AND  MR  INGLE  CHURCH  WARD^"  1820.  R.  TAYLOR 
AND  SON  FOUND^-  ST  NEOTS  HUNTS. 

Weight  of  Tenor  11  cwt.    Note  G  sharp.  Weight  of  whole  peal  43  cwt. 


175.   SWAFFHAM  PRIOR. 

St  Cyriac.  Ecclesia  destructa. 

Formerly  there  ^\'ero  three  bells,  on  one  of  which  was 


f 

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176.  SWAFFHAM  PRIOR. 

St  Mary.  6  Bells  and  Clock  Bell 

1.  JOHN  BPJANT  OF  nARTFORD  FECIT  1791.  SAMUEL  HART  AND 
JOHN  NUNN  CHURCH  WARDENS. 

2.  JOHN  BRIANT  OF  HARyPORD  FECIT  1791. 

3.  4.  5.     JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT  1791. 

6.  JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT  1791.  SAMUEL  HART  AND  JOHN 
NUNN  CHURCH  WARDENS. 

Clock  Bell.  JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT.  W.  KILLINGBECK  C. 
W.  1793. 

177.  SWAVESEY. 

St  Andreiu.  G  Bells. 

1.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAH  DEI.  1753.  JOSEPH  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS 
FECIT. 

2.  IHS  NAZARENUS  REX  JUDEORUM  FILI  DEI  MISERERE  MEI. 
1753. 

3.  (An  inscription  of  5  words  filed  off.) 

4.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.     J.  EAYRE  FECIT  1753. 

5.  J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1753. 

6.  I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL 
AND  TO  THE  GRAVE  DO  SUMMON  ALL. 

JOHN  WARIIAM  MINISTER  JOHN  DODSON  JOHN  TAILER  C.  W.  BERRY 
DODSON  BENEFACTOR  1753. 

Weight  of  Tenor  12  cwt.    Note  F. 

178.  TADLOW. 

St  Giles.  1  Bell. 

1.  +  Snncte  Rubric  Orn  |Pro  iJoiiis. 

The  cross  is  very  badly  cast,  but  it  appears  to  resemble  that  on  the 
treble  at  Long  Stow.  There  is  also  an  indistinct  impression  of  a  coin. 
"Tadlowe"  at  ili  j  time  of  Edward  VI.  possessed  "in  the  stepleiij  bells  aud 
j  Sanctis  bell."-' 


^  Aug.  icutation  bilice,  Miscollaiicous  Books,  Vol.  I'Jo, 


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179.  TEVERSHAM. 

All  Saints.  1  Bell. 

].     TAYLOR  ST  NEOTS  FOUNDER  1799. 

Three  bells  in  Blomefickl's  time,  of  wtiicli  two  were  inscribed 

S^anctcT  ?itatcnna  (Bxa  ^Pro  iSobis,  and  g^niuta  illaria 
<I^ra  ^ro  iSobis.    Coll  Cant  p.  184. 


180.  THETFORD. 

St  George.  1  Bell. 

1.  17G9. 

Diameter  17  in.,  hoiglit  14 in.  In  the  Eegistcr  is  this  note.  "Mem. 
The  Chapel  Bell  at  Tlietford  was  given  by  Dr  Edmund  Kcene,  Bishop  of 
Ely.  It  had  formerly  belonged  to  the  Cha[)el  at  Ely  House,  Holbourn, 
London ;  and  upon  tlie  alienation  of  that  House  from  the  See  of  Ely  by 
Act  of  Parliament,  it  was  sent  by  his  Lordship's  order  to  his  Palace  at  Ely 
and  was  brought  from  thence  to  Thetford  Octr.  14,  1775." 


181.  THORNEY  ABBEY. 

St  Mary  and  St  Botolph.  1  Bell. 

1.  17.20. 

Weight  9  cwt.  Note  B  flat.  Flower-border  round  the  shoulder,  similar 
to,  but  not  precisely  identical  with,  that  engraved  as  from  the  Ecton  and 
Chacombe  foundry,  in  EUacombe's  Clmrch  Bells  of  Gloucestershire.  The  same 
border  with  this,  with  the  date  1G84,  is  found  at  Llanfair-ar-y-Brj^n. 
Below,  a  shield,  a  lion  rampant.  This  is  probably  a  second-hand  bell 
replacing  that  mentioned  in  Browne  Willis's  Mitred  xihheys: — Thorncy 
Abbey  Church  is  "adorned  at  the  Western  end  with  two  turrets  which  are 
about  twenty  feet  higher  than  the  rest  of  the  building :  in  that  on  the 
North  side  hangs  a  bell  of  about  16  cwt.,  placed  there,  as  I  am  informed, 
A.D.  1636." 

182.  THRIPLOVV. 

All  Saints.  5  Bells. 

1.  GRATA  SIT  ARO.UTA  RESONANS  CAMPANULA  VOCE  1743. 

2.  HIS.  nazaklnps  rex  judeorum  anno  domini  1743. 


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3.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.  J.  E.  1743. 

4.  LABOR  IPSE  VOLUPTAS.     J.  EAYRE  FECIT  1743. 

5.  JOSEPH  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  1743.  GRAY  PARDUE  GENT. 
JOHN  TILL  WILLIAM  DUNEDGE  CHURCHWARDENS. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  lOcwt.    Piameter  BGiii.,  Note  G. 


183.  TOFT. 

St  Andrew,  '  8  Bells. 

1.  THO.  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1722. 

2.  [+3]  j^^;^[D5]  (i©;^:^2rejB:. 

3.  JOSEPH  EAYRE  FECIT  1727.  JOHN  LEE  RECTOR  HENRY  ROYSTON 
CHURCH  WARDEN. 

21  coins  on  the  Treble,  and  one  on  the  Tenor.  A  large  piece  broken  out 
of  the  rim  of  the  former,  showing  the  metal  much  honey-combed. 


184.  TRUMPINGTON. 

JSt  Mary  and  St  Michael.  5  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  DARBIE  MADE  ME  1G77. 

THOMAS  ALLEN  GAVE  ME  . 
A  TREABELL  FOR  TO  BE. 

2.  THO.  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1723.  JOHN  HAILES  JAMES  BRAND. 
C.  W. 

3.  M.  G. 

4.  [049]  thrice  on  shoulder. 

5.  J.  EAYRE  1749  CVM  CANO  BYSTA  MORI  CVM  PVLPETA 
VIVERE  DESI  -+  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.  JOHN  HAILES  THO. 
SPENCER  C.  WARDENS. 

Tenor  in  G  sharp.    The  word  'trinus'  has  been  omitted  on  the  4th. 


185.  TYDD, 

St  Giles.  5  Bells. 

1.  THE  GIFT  OF  SIGISMVND  TRAFFORD  OF  DVNTON  HALL  IN  TIDD  ST 
MARIES  1710.      .lENRY  PENN  FVSOR. 


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2.  OMNIA  FIANT  AD  GLORIAM  DEI.     TOEIE  NORRIS  CAST  ME  1625. 
ABELL  HODGES  RECTOR. 

3.  NON  CLAMOR  SED  AMOR  CANTAT  IN  AVRE  DEI.  TOBIE  XORRIS 
CAST  ME  1G25. 

4.  CELORVM  CIIRISTE  PLACEAT  TYBE  REX  SONVS  ISTE. 

W  M.  M  M  M  m  M.'M  'M- 
:ki  ©  J©  3£  J©  [°82]  @f  jpi  [082]  m  M  M.- 

:Ki@r®pi<i>:isi  i^m  leos  [□□82]. 

5.  JAMES  SCRIBO  ADAM  COOK  CHURCHWARDENS  1726. 

The  treble  bears  on  the  waist  the  crest  of  the  Trafibrd  family,  a  rustic 
with  a  flail.  The  2nd  and  3rd  bear  the  Eoyal  Arms  between  them,  a  com- 
mon arrangement  of  Tobie  Norris's.  The  name  of  Scribo  or  Scribaut  is 
common  in  the  French  Register  at  Thorney.  Mr  James  Scribeau  was  on 
the  Jury  at  a  Manorial  Court  held  at  Thorney  3  Aug.  1748.  E.  Smith  of 
"Wisbich  in  the  Isle  of  Ely"  in  1717  dedicated  to  Sigi«mund  Trafford  a 
Lecture  "on  the  Surprizing  Phsenomenon  of  Light  in  1715."  On  the  4th 
bell  "tybe"  is  a  mistake  for  "tibi."  Celorum  Christe  &c.  is  found  on  a 
modiiuval  bell  at  Artliingworthj  Northamptonshire.  In  the  Gth  year  of 
]*'(hv.  W  .  here  were  in  the  steeple  3  bells,  another  little  bell  standing  on 
the  ground,  and  a  "Sanctis"  bell.    Augm.  Books,  vol.  495,  p.  165. 


186.  UPWELL. 

Christ  Church.  1  Bell. 

1.    warner  and  sons  london  1865. 

(royal  arms)  (patent) 


187.  WATERBEACH. 

8t  John.  5  Bells. 

1.  TIIOS.  OSBOKN  FiyjIT  1791, 

2.  3.  4.      T.  OSBOK'X  FECIT  1791. 

5.      W.  mason  CnU.<CTI  warden.    T.  OSBORN  DOWNTIAM  FECIT  1791. 


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174  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 

Here  Masters  in  1795  noted  four  bells,  not  nn  altogctlicr  pardonable 
mistake,  seeing  he  had  been  Vicar  of  the  parish.  The  statement  nuiy 
perhaps  indicate  that  there  had  been  four  bells  before  the  recasting. 

Weight  of  Tenor  7  cwt.    Diameter  35  in.    Note  G  sharp. 


188.  WELNEY. 

St  Mary.  1  Bell. 

1.     JOHN  CLARKE  MADE  ME  1613.  ' 

Another  bell,  about  40  years  old,  has  been  removed  from  the  Church 
to  the  School. 


189.  WENDY. 

All  Saints.  1  Bell. 

1.    [A  small  modern  bell.] 

Two  bells  were  sold  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VL  Date  of  the  late 
Church  1735,  rebuilt  c.  1868. 


190.  WENTWORTH. 

St  Peter,  1  Bell. 

1.     C.  AND  G.  MEARS  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1845. 


191.   WESTLEY  WATERLESS. 

St  Mary.  No  Bell ! 

Subject  for  an  epigram.  The  Sjnritlessness  of  Westley  ^Yaterless.  Gunto]i, 
Norfolk,  Steane,  Northamptonshire,  Woldingham,  Surrey,  are  said  to  be 
in  the  same  plight.    The  tower  has  fallen  down. 

J3Z    WESlZ^i  COLVrLLE,  , 
St  Mary.  5  Bells.  \ 

1.  2.  3.  4.  5.     T.  MEARS  LONDON  FECIT  1825. 

Weight  of  Tenor  7  cwt.  Diameter  33  in.  Note  A  sharp.  The  Tenor 
bears  the  names  iA'  the  Churchwardens.  The  tower  of  this  Church  fell  in 
1825,  and  all  \}\<'  bells  were  broken  but  one,  which  is  now  tlie  treble  at 
Wood  Ditton. 

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193.  VVHADDON. 

>S'^  Mary.  3  Bells. 

1.  2.  3.     MICHAEL  DARBIE  MADE  ME  1C71. 

Weiglit  of  Tenor  c,  8  cwt.  Diameter  35  in.  Note  A.  Here  tliere  was 
a  peal  of  five,  but  the  old  2nd  and  4th  ^Yere  sold. 


194.  WHITTLESEA, 

^S'^  Andrew.  6  Bells. 

1.  JOSEPH  EAYRE  ST  NEOt's  FECIT  1759. 

2.  THESE  FIVE  BELLS  WAS  CAST  MAY  THE  12.  1759. 

3.  WILLIAM  BEALE  RECTOR,  JOHN  LOOMES  CHURCHWARDEN.  EAYRE 
FECIT  17  GO. 

I  TO  THE  CHURCH  THE  LIVING  CALL. 
AND  TO  THE  GRAVE  DO  SUMMON  ALL, 

4.  5.  6.  TII03IAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON  1843,  REV.  J.  T.  COOK, 
VICAR. 

THOMAS  JOHNSON  ^ 

y  CHURCHWARDENS. 
WILLIAM  READ  j 

Weight  of  Tenor  22  cwt.    Note  E  flat.  . 

The  ^Ycights  of  five  cf  the  peal  a.s  cast  by  Eayrc,  arc  noted  in  the  tower  : 

cwt.       qrs.  lbs. 


^' 1st  Bell  0  3  18 

2nd  „  7  1  23 

3rd  „  8  2  8 

4th  9  1  23 

5th  „  13  1  24  1759." 


"The  last  three  bells  were  taken  in  exchange  for  three  old  ones  of  about 
equal  weight,  no  doubt  part  of  the  peal  of  five  cast  in  1759,  of  ^Yllich  two 
remain.    The  verses  on  the  third  bell  are  round  the  outside  of  the  lip.'" 

Sweeting's  Par  iVi  Churches  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Peterborough^  p.  112. 


!95.  WHITTLESEA. 

8t  Mary.  8  Bells. 

1.  THE  LORD  TO  VKAISE 

MY  VOICE  I'LL  RAISE  1803, 

2.  OSBORN  AND  Di.BSON  FOUNDERS  DOWNHAM  NORFOLK  1S03. 


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3.  JOSEPH  EAYRE  FECIT. 
PEACE  AND  GOOD 
NEIGHBOURHOOD. 

4.  DO  JUSTICE  LOVE  MERCY  AND  WALK  HUMBLY  WITH  THY  GOD. 
1758. 

5.  JOHN  SUDBURY  AND  ,,JOIIN  JOHNSON  CHURCHWARDENS  OF  ST 
ANDREW'S.  1803. 

6.  •  THE  FIVE  OLD  BELLS  INTO  SIX  WAS  RUN 

WITH  ADDITIONAL  METAL  NEAR  A  TUN.  1758. 

7.  PROSPERITY  TO  THE  ESTABLISH^  CHURCH  AND  NO  ENCOURAGE- 
MENT TO  ENTHUSIASM.  1758. 

8.  THOMAS  MOORE  VICAR.  EDWARD  GROUND  AND  WILL'*^  DAVY 
GROUND  CHURCHWARDENS  OP  ST  MARY's  1803. 

Weight  of  Tenor  20  cwt.    Note  E. 

In  the  Inventory  of  Church  Goods,  taken  27  July  6  Edw.  VI.,  there 
occurs  "Itm  in  the  Steaple  iij  great  bells  a  sanctus  bell  &  ij  handbells 
and  a  sacrey  bell." 

Sweeting's  Parish  Churches  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Peterborough^  ^.  lOG. 


196.  WHITTLESFORD. 

St  Mary  and  St  Andrew.  5  Bells. 

1.  R.  G.  MADE  ME  1G72. 

2.  MILES  GRAVE  MADE  ME  1631.      I.  L. 

3.  THO.  GARDINER  SUDBURY  FECIT  1736. 

4.  JOHN  WAYLETT  MADE  ME  1708. 

5.  JOHN  BRIANT  HARTFORD  FECIT  1793.  R.  WHISKIN  S.  BARNES 
C.  WARDENS. 

The  treble  bears  a  crown-and-arrows.  Weight  of  Tenor  14  cwt.  Dia- 
meter 43|  in.    Note  F. 


197.  WICKEN. 

St  Laurence.  5  Belh 

1.  163  L    I.  D. 

2.  THOMiN  .  NEWMAN  MADE  MEE  1703.      T.  R.  W.  0.  C.  AV. 


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3.  [o-lO]  tlirice  on  .slioiildcr. 

[  +  54]  ^aiuia  ■  iilartn  •  (Bxa  •  ^ro  •  i^obis. 

4.  DE  BYEI  SANTI  EDMOXDI  STEFANVS  TOXNI  ME  FECIT  1582.   W.  L. 

5.  MILES  GKAYE  MADE  ME  1660. 

The  initials  on  the  treble  care  probably  John  Draper's,  and  those  on  the 
4th  WilUam  Land's.  ^ 


198.   WICKHAM,  WEST. 

St  John.  5  Bells. 

1.      HEXRY  PLEASANT  MADE  ME  1700.      A.  HARRISOX. 

[□82]  m.e:<s^i^^'-]^m:mm^^'-'i:£i>G:<s^ 

[□82]  160G. 

4.  Hjc  [034]  nn?arcnus  [034]  rex  [nSG]  juUcoru  [□35 
□30]. 

5.  JOHN  TIIOUNTON  OF  SVDBVRY  MADE  ME  1714. 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  lOcwt.  Diameter  38Mn.  Note  G.  The  Treblt 
and  Tenor  are  both  a  little  sharp,  which  gives  a  kind  of  minor  sound  to  thi 
scale. 


199.    WILBRAHAM,  GREAT. 

St  Nicholas.  o  Bells. 

1.  JOHN  WAYLETT  MADE  THIS  RING  1709. 

2.  JOHN  STRAND  CHURCHWARDEN  1709. 

3.  JOHN  WARD  AGENT  1709. 

4.  JOHN  WAYLETT  MADE  THESE  FIVE  BELLS  1079  (for  1709). 

5.  THOMAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON  AND  GLOUCESTER  1837. 

JOHN  TEVKIJSHAM') 

I  C.W. 
WM.  POOLi:  J 

Weight  of  Tenor  c.  9  c\H.   Diameter  37  in.    Note  G.    A  bad  peal 


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200.    WILBRAHAM,  LITTLE. 

St  John  (the  Baptist?) 


3  Bells. 


1.  DE  BVRI  SANTI  EDMONDI  STEFANVS  TONNI  ME  FECIT  1576. 

2.  DE  BVRI  SANTI  EDMONDI  STEFANVS  TONNI  ME  FECIT  1575. 

3.  RICARDVS  BOWLER  ME  FECIT  1604. 

Weight  of  Tenor  (a  very  good  bell)  c.  11  cwt  Diameter  38  in.  Note  G. 


1.  DO  JUSTLY  LOVE  MERCY  AND  WALK  HUMBLY  WITH  THY  GOD. 

2.  OCTOBER  7  1755. 

BLESSED  ARE  THE  PEACEMAKERS. 

3.  JOS:  EAYRE  FECIT.  IHS  NAZARENUS  REX  JUDEORUM  FILI  DEI 
MISERERE  MEI  OCT.  7  1755. 

4.  THE  FIRST  TIME  THESE  FIVE  BELLS  RANG  WAS  FOR  TIIOS.  WALL- 
MAN'S  wedding.      JOSEPH  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT. 

5.  JOHN  GOODE  RECTOR  THOMAS  BRAND  AND  THOMAS  WALLMAN 
CHURCHWARDENS  1755. 

The  inscription  on  the  4th  bell  was  sadly  premature ;  for  ^Iv  Thomas 
Walhnan  died  a  bachelor,  whether  by  death  of  the  lady  or  breaking  oft"  of 
the  engagement  I  know  not. 


201.  WILLIISSGHAM. 


St  Mary. 


5  Bells. 


202.  WILLINGHAM, 


St  Matthevj. 


Ecclesia  destntcta. 


203.  WIMBLINGTON. 

St  John  (the  Evangelist?) 
1.  (Modern.) 


1  Bell. 


204.  WIMPOLE. 


St  Audrey \ 


1  Bell 


1.      MILES  GUAYli  MADE  ME  1653. 


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205.  WISBECH. 


>S'^  Augustine. 
(A  modern  Churcli.) 


1  Bell. 


206.  WISBECH. 

St  Mary. 


5  Bells. 


1.  GIVE  NO  OFFENCE  TO  THE  CHURCIT. 

2.  OSBORN  AND  DOBSON  FOUND.  1803. 

3.  LONG  LIVE  KING  GEORGE  THE  THIRD. 

4.  OSBORN  AND  DOBSON  FOUNDERS  DOWNHAM  NORFOLK  ANNO 
DOMINI  1803. 

5.  GYLES  MARRIOTT  AND  TIIO.  WILLIAMSON  CHURCHWARDENS  1803. 

Weight  of  Tenor  1 1  cwt. 


1.  2.     WM.  DOBSON  DOWNIIAM  NORFOLK  FECIT  1823. 

3.  FEAR  GOD  AND  HONOR  THE  KING. 

4.  LONG  LIVE  KING  GEORGE  THE  FOURTH. 

5.  G.     ABRAllAMUS  JOBSON  S.  T.  P.  VICARIUS  ME  DONO  DEDIT  A.D. 


7.  PROSPERITY  TO  THE  TOWN  OF  WISBECH  ST  PETER  1823. 

8.  LAUDO  DEUM  VERUM  PLEBEM  VOCO  CONGREGO  CLERUM  DE- 
FUNCTOS  PLORO  PESTEM  FUGO  FESTA  DECORO.  1823. 

I  PRAISE  THE  LORD  THE  PEOPLE  CALL  CONVOKE  THE  PRIESTS; 
THE  DEAD  DEPLORE  PLAGUES  DRIVE  AWAY  AND  GLADDEN  FEASTS. 

9.  IN  wedlock's  bands  all  ye  WHO  JOIN 

WITH  HANDS  YOUR  HEARTS  UNITE 
SO  SHALL  OUR  TUNEFUL  TONGUES  COMBINE 
TO  LAUD  THE  NUPTIAL  RITE. 

10.  ABRAHAM    JOBSON    VICAR.    WM.    SWANSBOROUGH    AND  THOS. 
MOORE  CHURCHWARDENS- 
WILLIAM  DO!;-<'V  FOUNDER  1823. 

I  TO  TIIJ;  i.'llURCII  THE  LIVING  CALL 
AND  TO  Ti'b:  GRAVE  DO  SUM:\I0N  ALL. 


207.  WISBECH. 

'St  Peter. 


li)  Bells. 


1823. 


12—2 


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Weight  of  Tenor,  21  cwt.  Note  E  flat.  Opened  Dec.  19tli,  1823.  A 
fine-toned  peal  from  the  Downham  foundry.  The  chimes,  I  am  told,  arc 
very  good. 


BeUs. 

cwt. 

qrs. 

lbs. 

1 

5 

3 

18 

2 

5 

3 

2G 

3 

6 

1 

2G 

4 

7 

0 

1 

5 

7 

0 

22 

6 

8 

2 

18 

7 

9 

2 

7 

8 

12 

1 

3 

9 

15 

3 

10 

10 

21 

2 

15 

5^.  0 

2 

6 

The  old  peal  was  in  F. 


208.    WISBECH  (CHAPEL  OF  EASE.) 

St 

(A  modern  building.) 


209.  WITCHAM. 

St  Martin. 

1.     C.  AND  G.  MEARS  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1819. 
AVoiglit  c.  11  cwt.    Diameter  38  in.    Note  G  sharp. 


210.  WITCHFORD. 

St  Nicholas. 

1.  2.  3.      CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1G71, 


1  Bell 


1  Bell. 


3  Bells. 


211.    WRATTING,  WEST. 

St  Audrey).  5  Bells. 

1.  J.  EAYRE  ST  NEOTS  FECIT  -h  -i-  -!-  f  4-  4-  1750.  ED.  HAY- 
LOCK  CHURCH  WARDEN. 

2.  1702. 

3.  T.  MEARS  OF  LONDON  FECIT  1828. 

4.  5.    GEORf;]-;  mrars  founder  London  18G0. 

The  2nd  is  oi  i'lc  well-known  Cambridgeshire  type,  presumably  l>y 
Eichard  Keene.  Tlio  old  Tenor  was  by  Thomas  do  Lenne.  Present  Tenor 
in  A.    Weight  0.  8i  ^•t. 


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APPENDIX  A. 

On  the  umrds  CxVMPAna  and  NoLxV. 

After  enduring  for  many  years  with  great  fortitude  the  repetition  of  a 
stereotyped  derivation  of  these  two  well-known  Latin  names  for  a  bell,  men 
have  grown  restive.  Enquiry  has  taken  the  place  of  transmission,  and  the 
theory  which  satisfied  generations  of  Encyclopa}dists  and  writers  for 
magazines  is  no  longer  regarded  as  even  plausible. 

The  received  story  was  that  Paulinus,  Bishop  of  Nola  in  Campania, 
introduced  bells  into  the  Church,  and  that  from  this  local  circumstance 
arose  the  names  Canipana  and  Kola.  Now  among  the  extant  epistles  of 
Paulinus  is  one  to  Severus  in  which  he  describes  his  church  without 
mention  of  either  tower  or  bells This  by  itself  would  indicate  that  any 
adaptation  of  bells  to  ecclesiastical  uses  was  at  that  time  unknown  to  him. 

Let  me,  however,  cast  further  doubt  on  the  usual  derivation.  AVala- 
fridus  Strabo^j  who  lived  about  the  middle  of  the  13th  century,  deri\'es 
the  names  indeed  from  Nola  and  Campania,  but  is  silent  about  Paulinus  : 
— "  De  vasis  fusilibus,  vol  otiam  productililnis,  quae  simpliciter  signa 
vocantur,  quia  corum  sonoritato,  quibusdam  pulsibus  excitata,  sigiiih- 
cantur  horae,  quilnis  in  domo  Dei  statuta  celebrantur  officia  :  de  his, 
inquam,  hie  dicendum  videtur,  quod  eorum  usus  non  adeo  apud  antiquos 
habitus  proditur,  quia  nec  tam  multiplex  apud  eos  conventuimi  assid\ii- 
tas,  ut  modo  est,  habebatiu-.  Apud  alios  eniin  devotio  sola  cogebat  ad 
statutas  horas  concurrere.  Alii  pronuntiationibus  x^nblicis  invitabantur, 
ct  in  una  solennitate  proximo  futuras  dicebant,  Apud  quosdam  tal^ulis, 
apud  nonnullos  cornibus  horae  prodebantur.  Vasorum  autem  de  quibas 
sermo  ortus  est,  usum  primo  apud  Italos  affirmant  inventum.  Undo  et  a 
Campania,  quae  est  Italia  provincia,  eadem  vasa,  majora  quidem,  Campanac 
dicuntur  :  minora  vero,  quae  et  a  sono  tintinnabula  vocantur,  Nolas  a}ipcl- 
lant,  a  Nola  ejusdem  civitate  Campaniae,  ubi  eadem  vasa  j>rirao  sunt  com- 
mentata."  Polydore  Vergil  bluntly  declares  that  no  one  laiows  who  ijivented 
bells  "Quid  jucundius  re])eriri  potuit  Horologio...quid  gratius  Tintiiiua- 
bulo,  quod  Campauam,  nonnnlli  Nolam  nuncu[)aiit,  iiiveniri  potuit... 
utriusque  tameji  i  >.i  I'i  tor  xVutor  latet^"  This  is  a  different  thing  from  den^'ing 

1  Tltc  r.rll,  by  Dr  Clatty  of  Ecclesflckl,  p.  13. 

2  Dc  'j:ri}iifi  0///C//.S,  c.  v.    Quoted  by  (icrarJ  Voss. 
IK'  nivcntorihus  Jieriiw,  1,  in.  c.  18. 


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tliat  Pauliims  brought  the  use  of  bells  into  the  Church,  but  if  the  tradition 
liad  recommended  itself  to  Polydore  Vergil  he  would  most  likely  have 
mentioned  it,  considering  that  he  actually  cites  the  words  in  question, 
Chladni^,  after  alluding  to  the  Paulinian  story  as  current  in  his  day,  "Alii 
dicunt,  &c."  adds  the  sigTiificant  words  "utut  alii  et  hoc  pro  Errore  vulgari 
habeant."  But  the  most  important  testimony  is  that  of  Gerard  Voss,  avIio 
seems  to  suggest  that  the  mistal^e  arose  through  an  erroneous  interpreta- 
tion given  to  the  words  of  Isidore  of  Seville 2.  What  Isidore  in  the  early 
part  of  the  seventh  century  said  concerning  the  steel}'ard  was  transferred 
to  the  bell.  "  Fortasse  autem  aliquis  etiam  pertinere  hue  credat  lociun 
Isidori,  lib.  xvi.  cap.  xxiv.  Campana  a  regione  Italiae  nomen  accepit,  ubi 
primum  ejus  usus  repertus  est.  Sed  secus  est.  Nam  loquitur  Isidorus  do 
trutina  campana,  quae  constat  scapo  notis  distincto,  discrimina  librarum 
indicantibus.  Indicant  hoc  ipsius  Isidori  verba,  quae  continuo  sulidit  : 
Ilaec  duas  lances  non  habet,  setl  virga  est  signata  libris  et  unciis  et  vago 
pondere  mensurata 

Hitherto  I  have  been  unable  to  trace  far  back  the  history  of  the  Pauli- 
nian hypothesis.  Perhaps  its  origin  is  not  very  remote.  The  earli(3st 
authority  I  can  fiiid  is  one  Gulielmus  Cognatus,  quoted  by  Lawrence  Beyer- 
link  (c.  1637)  in  Ids  celebrated  Sermon  on  Bells'^. 

I  return  to  Gerard  Voss  who  starts  with  a  valuable  hint  :— 
"Forte  UKaTTaur],  inseito  M,  quomodo  a  Syro  Sadin  est  sijridon.,  a  tappin 
tympanum^  &c.  Kaivavr)  proprie,  llesychio  teste,  est  rpix^lvr]  Kvi>rj,  galea  e  pilis. 
Inde  dicta  fuerit  <xnnpana  cpiia  forma  ejus  a  (xtmpana  non  abludcret. 
Nisi  potius  dicendmn,  Ka'nqvr]^  vocem  extensam  ad  galeas  on'eas :  has  autem 
loco  tintinnahuli  solitas  pulsari,  atque  ab  hac  consuetudine  ca/ny^a/^c^c!  nonien 
originem  traxisse.  Sed  metuo  ne,  quae  hactenus  diximus,  plus  argutiarum 
habeant  quam  veritatis.  Quippe  plane  puto,  camjmnae,  addo  et  nobie 
\'ocabulum  a  posteriori  esse  seculo,  etsi  res  sit  admodum  vetus.  Nam  et 
veteres  aeris,  tintinnahidi,  -qx^iov,  x(^^<^'^ov,  aliisqu^  vocabulis  nominarunt 
qua  de  re  Pladi*.  Junius  lib.  iii.  Animadvers.  cap.  ii." 

1  venture  to  suggest  that  Campana  and  Kanaut],  like  cup,  cap,  capio, 
capulus,  and  a  host  of  like  words  have  their  origin  in  a  Semitico-Aryan 
root  consisting  of  a  guttural  and  a  labial  with  a  dull  vowel  inserted, 
denoting  a  hollow^,  of  which  we  seem  to  have  several  forms  in  Hebrew 
viz. :        (the  "cab"  of  dove's  dung,  2  Beg.  vi.  25),  f^^,  ("the  hollow"  of 

Jacob's  thigh,  Gen.  xxxii.  26),  and  '2'2  iioted  by  Gesenius  as  obsolete. 
But  I  cannot  agree  with  Gerard  Voss  that  Nola  for  a  bell  is  a  late 
word.    Quintilian's  mention  of  it,  ^ ^  aenigmate. .  .\\im\im — oratores  nonnun- 

^  Inventarhua  "J\'inpIonm  (Dresden,  1689),  p.  ■I7G. 

2  Isid.  Hisp.  Orl'ihittm  s.  Etijniolugiarum  Lihri  xx.  1.  xvi.  c.  24. 

3  Gerard  Voss,  I'.ti/nioloi/icon  Linfjna.Ldtiius,  in  v.  Campana. 

4  Sec  Ellaoomluv  of  the  Church,  cOc,  p.  280. 

5  Delitzsch,  (luoti  ]  by  Pezzi  in  his  Anjaii  Fhilukxjij  (Bobcrts's  Tr.),  p,  GH, 


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qnam:  ut  Caeciliiis,  Quadrantariain  Clytemnaestram,  in  triclinio  Cuain,  in 
cubiculo  nolam^,"  seems  to  indicate  not  only  that  it  was  a  common  word, 
but  that  it  was  the  name  of  an  article  in  common  use.  As  we  iiuve  it  in  a 
later  age  as  the  word  for  a  bell,  why  should  it  not  have  1.)een  tlie  A\'ord  fur  a 
bell  in  the  ante-Augustan  age?  Indeed  this  view  is  taken  by  "Cielius 
Rhodiginus  quidam,"  whose  opinion  Voss  scouts,  eacli  man  apparently 
regarding  only  one  side  of  the  douhh  entendre.  Xor  does  there  seem  to  be 
any  etymological  reason  for  referring  the  name  to  the  city  of  ^Tola.  The 
historical  reason  has  already  dropped  to  pieces.  An  article  like  a  bell, 
taking  its  name  from  Xola,  woukl  have  been  called  vus  Xolaunni  or  some- 
thing of  the  same  kind,  and  thus  Nolanum  or  jVoIajia.  I  conclude  tlien 
that  JVoIa  is  a  case  of  onomatopccia,  like  knell  and  fiiwll,  from  the  sound  of 
the  bell,  and  I  would  impute  to  some  fanciful  etymologist  of  inucli  later 
times  than  those  of  Paulinus  the  assumed  connnon  origin  of  the  words 
Campana  and  Xola. 


APPENDIX  B. 

Texts  on  Camhridgesldre  Bells. 
From  the  Vulgate  : — 

Media)val.    In  Dno  cofido.    Ps.  xi.  (sec.  Heb.)  1. 
15C4.    Jubilenms  Deo  Sahitari  n(>stro.    Ps.  xcv.  (sec.  Hel.).)  1. 
Uncertain.   Jubilate  Deo  omnis  popuhis  terre  (Vulg.  omnis  terra).  Ps. 
c.  (sec.  Heb.)  1. 

Mediceval.    Sit  Xomen  Domini  benedictum.    Ps.  cxiii.  (sec.  Heb.)  iJ. 
Media3vaL    0ms  sus  laudet  Dnm.    Ps.  cl.  (3. 
1872.    Sanctus,  Sanctus,  Sanctus.    Isa.  vi.  3. 

Mediccval.    Ave  Maria,  gratia  plena,  Dominus  tecum,    S.  Luc.  i.  28. 

1856.  Gloria  in  altissimis  Deo  et  in  terra  pax  hominibus  bone  volun- 
tatis.   S.  Luc.  ii.  14. 

18th  century.    IHS  Nazarenus  Eex  Judajoruni.    S.  Job.  xix.  19. 

17th  and  ISth  centuries.  Omnia  fiant  ad  gloriam  Dei  (Vulg.  facitel 
1  Cor.  X,  31. 

From  the  Authorised  Version  : — 

1629.  God  save  the  King.    1  Kings  i.  34. 

1616.  Praise  the  Lorcle.    Ps.  passim. 

1856.  Peace  bo  w  ithin  thy  walls.    Ps.  cxxii.  7. 

1774.  Do  justly,  Jove  mercy,  and  walk  humbly  with  thy  God.  ^lic. 
vi.  8. 

1823.  Fear  God  and)  Honor  the  King.    1  Pet.  ii.  17. 


1  Tmt.  Orat.  VIII.  G. 


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APPENDIX  C. 

The  following  note  as  to  Bell-customs  in  Soliam,  by  the  late  Eev.  Henry 
Tasker,  M.A.,  Vicar  of  the  pai-ish^-  was  sent  by  the  present  A^icar  to  the 
Camhridge  Chronicle,  and  printed  in  their  issue  of  Sept,  17th,  1S81. 
Mr  Ivust  imagines  the  paper  to  be  about  40  years  old. 

At  7-^  o'clock  on  Sunday  mornings  the  Bell  Xo.  I.,  i.e.  the  smallest  Bell,  is 
rung  a  few  minutes. 

At  8  Bells  vii  and  viii  are  tolled.  (If  it  be  a  Sacrament  Day,  the  Ylth  and 
Vllth  are  used  instead :  and  none  at  7vj  o'clock  because  no  sermon  in  the 
morning  of  such  day.) 

At  10  Bell  X,  which  is  the  largest,  and  is  called  the  Semion  beil,  is  runn 
10  m. 

At  10  m.  past  10  several  Bells,  according  to  the  number  of  ringers  assembled, 
are  chimed  three  little  Bounds,  or  Periods,  till  near  ^  to  11. 

At  nr.  J  to  11,  Bell  I  goes  two  or  three  minutes,  more  strongly  pulled  than  in 
tolling  ;  and  this  is  cahed  "  janghug." 

At  ^  to  11  Bell  X  is  rung  10  minutes. 

At  5  m.  to  11  Bell  I  is  toUed  5  minutes. 

At  the  tune  of  going  out  of  Church  Bell  I  is  jangled  2  minutes,  and  this  is 
called  Puddg.  Bell. 

Simday  Afternoons. 
At  near  2  the  Bell  I  is  jangled  3  m. 
At  2  Chiming  as  at  10  m.  loast  10,  etc. 
At  21  Sermon  Bell  is  rimg  10  m. 
At  5  m.  to  2^  Bell  I  is  tolled  5  minutes. 

X.B. — When  there  is  a  fire  in  Soham,  or  very  near.  Bells  X  and  I  are 
r.uxo. 

About  an  hour  after  the  Death,  or  just  before  the  8  o'clock  Bell  in  the  evening 
.previous  to  the  funeral  of  a 

j^X\N  or.  Boy  : — 
III  III,         III  III  III 

3  and    3,  3  and     3    and  3 

with  the  ninth  and  tenth  Bell  are  tolled  : 

■  "WoilAN   OK  GlKL  : — 

III  11,  III  III  II 

3  and    2,  3  and     3    and  2, 

with  the  ninlli  i  ^jll  are  tolled  : 
The  Bell  is  then  ui: laediately  rai^'cJ  to  ring  it  nainutely,  if  required;  or  if  iivi 
ordered  it  is  ra- ^  with  less  regularity. 


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ADDENDA,  CORRIGENDA,  &c. 

P.  3.  1.  19.  I  am  informed  by  the  Rev.  T.  M.  N.  Owen  that  the 
bell  at  Einierdale  Chapel  in  St  Bees  parish  is  inscribed  (in  what  lettering 
I  know  not)  Suncta  Beyd  Ova  Pro  Nobis. 

P.  5.  1.  40.    Por  "  20  "  read  "  202." 

P.  17.  1.  3,  Mr  North's  conjecture  as  to  the  date  of  John  of  Yorke  is 
confirmed  by  a  brass  in  AVanlip  Church,  inscribed  : 

''?i?cvcl^c^  '2yI)oma^  [£IHlnI^c|) ?itnjigl)t  Sortie  of  Slnlip  nnti  Same 
Hitatinc  imit  toljtcf)  in  I)ci-  tj)mc  matic  t|)e  lui'Uc  of  ^nlip  nnti  fjaluti  tl)c 
furi[tcj}art)c  fiv^t  m  luurcl){p  of  (Soti  ant)  of  our  latii)  ant)  ;3c^nt  i'itcl)oIa?5 
tl)at  ^Toti  i)abc  f)ci-  joules  ant)  mcrcg  anno  t)m  iHiUmo  ccc  nonagc^imo 
tcrtio." 

As  the  2nd  bell  at  Wanlip  is  inscribed  ^anctc  il5.tcolauc  0ra  ^I'O 
iiiof)l$),  we  must  suppose  the  bell  as  well  as  the  church  to  be  the  gift 
of  Dame  Katherinc  AValsch.  Tliere  is  a  certain  Johannes  Potter,  appa- 
rently of  this  pL'i'iod,  whose  bells  arc  to  be  found  in  York.  It  would 
bo  worth  while  to  compare  his  lettering  and  stamps  with  those  of  Jo- 
hannes de  Yorke. 

P.  22.  1.  7.    For  "  That  bell "  read  "  That  link." 

P.  22..  fig.  31.    The  Arms  of  Sir  William  AValworth,  Lord  Mayor  1374 
and  1380,  are  Gules,  a  Bend  ragulee  Ar.  between  two  garbs  Or, 
and  those  of  Sir  John  Walcot,  Lord  Mayor  1402,  are  Gides,  a  Fess  Or, 
between  three  dolphins  embowed  Az.    These  devices  may  account  for  the 
dolphin  and  garb  in  this  Foundry-stamp. 

P.  24.  1.  5.  For  "33,  34,  35  "read  "34,  35,  36;"  last  line,  for  "semed" 
read  "  semce." 

P.  75.  1.  26.    The  Croxton  tenor  is  by  Tobie  Norris,  jun. 

P.  86.  1.  6.    For  "  Xewcome  "  read  "  Newcombe." 

P.  97.  1.  19.  I  bi'li.jvu  that  I  am  mistaken  here.  There  may  liave  been 
10  minutes  or  so  (.l^  in  the  present  Roman  mass)  between  the  I'er- 
Sanctus  and  the  Canuu. 

Pp.  101,  103.    The.'  j  extracts  in  the  words  of  Ludlam  are  from  Lard- 


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P.  113.  L  24.    For  "eleventh"  read  "tenor." 
P.  131.       "^oW^  ©ollcgc. 

The  only  extract  relatmg  to  bells  which  Mr  J.  W,  Clark  has  been  able 
to  lincl  in  the  Audit-Book  of  St  John's  College  is  the  following  : 
"  1645  Exp.  Ecclesie.  1 

It'  for  casting  the  Chappell  mtd  the  Hall-bells,  beeing  8  | 
stone  weight  according  to  6''.  a  pound  4'.  1'".  0  ;  for  15  pod  '(330 
of  new  rnettall  15".  ;  for  carriage  to  Hadham  and  backe  \ 
againe  horse  and  man=hyre  9'.;  2  baldrigs  3'. ;  and  5  dayes  j 
worke  in  setting  them  up  and  for  the  frames  and  wheeles  15°'."  j 

The  date  of  the  "Silver  bell,''  1624,  does  not  tally  with 'this,  and 
the  academical  character  of  its  inscription  precludes  the  idea  of  its  being 
a  second-hand  bell.  Possibly  therefore  St  John's  once  had  three  bells. 
The  present  bell  hanging  over  the  Hall  screens  is  dated  1816,  and  Ijears 
nothing  but  the  date.  Perhaps  a  search  among  Hadham  (Qu :  ?  Much 
Hadham,  or  an  abbreviation  of  Hadenham  or  Haddenham  ?)  documeiits 
may  show  that  Miles  Graye  was  casting  there  about  1645. 

The  uses  of  bells  at  St  John's  are  rather  peculiar.  The  Rev,  Henry 
Russell  has  kindly  given  me  the  detail.  The  bell  which  hangs  over  the 
Hall  screens  rings  for  Hall  a  few  strokes  at  the  quarter  l^efore  dinner, 
and  before  and  a.fter  both  grace  before  meat  and  grace  after  meat.  It 
rings  also  for  Chapel,  morning  and  evening,  for  7-^  minutes,  beginning 
at  the  stroke  of  the  quarter  before  the  time  of  service  ;  but  on  sur[)lice 
evenings  the  "  Silver  bell "  rings  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour  before  the  othei-, 
beginning  at  half  an  hour  before  the  time  of  service. 

P.  140.    DOWNHAM  (IN-THE-ISLE). 

The  Rev.  K.  H,  Smith  thinks  the  peal  imperfect,  and  suggests  that 
the  2nd  and  5th  have  been  sold.  I  think  that  the  present  :ird  and  4th  are 
by  Rol^ard  Gurney. 

P.  181.  1.  15.    For  "  13th"  read  "9tli." 


INDEX. 


Names  in  Italics  arc  those  of  bell-founders.  Names  not  fomicl  in  t'lic  Index 
may  be  looked  for  in  the  parishes  to  which  they  belong,  wliich  are  alphabetically 
arranged. 


Abendon,  Dr,  Warden  of  Merton,  90 
Abington,  Little,  57,  8-i 
Agincourt,  28 

Aix-la-Chapelle,  Peace  of,  ringing  for, 
101) 

Alan,  rector  of  St  Benedict's,  Cam- 
bridge, 4 
Aldgate  Priory,  14 
Aleyn,  JoJi.,  14 
Alien  ci'artsiiion,  48 
AUen  priories,  '28 
Allonby,  11 
Amps,  105  , 
Amptbill,  89 
Anable,  110 
Angel  stamp,  16,  17 
Angelus  bell,  CO 
Angerslcigh,  51 
Anys,  40 

Argent,  111  '  . 

Armada  year,  63 
Armagh,  Abp.  of,  2 
Arnold,  EdiccL,  102 
Arrington,  84 
Ashley,  55 
Aspland,  94 

Assumption  of  the  Virgin,  12,  G'd 
Aylsh'm,  Eobarte,  5,  9 

Babraham,  3 
Badham,  Dr,  87 
Baijlejj,  99 
Balsham,  50 

Hugh  de,  4 

Baret,  61 
Barnewell,  3,  60 


Barre  Garreagh,  2 
Barrington,  87,  105 
Bartholomew,  3 

St,  London,  41 

Bartlett,  96 

Bartlow,  3,  24 

Barton,  87 

I'.ates,  2 

Becon,  54 

Bcddiugham,  26 

Bederoll,  35 

Beer,  5,  7,  29 

Bega,  3 

Bellezetter,  12 

Bellman,  60 

Berden,  98 

Berna]-d,  33 

Betham,  15 

Bettelin,  3 

Bettson,  69 

Birmingham,  105 

Blatherwycke,  29 

Blewf!,  William  and  Sons,  105 

Blois,  Peter  de,  3 

Blomefield,  25,  30 

Boston,  3,  44 

Botolph,  Sussex,  50 

Bottisham,  65 

Boughton  Aluph,  43 

Bourn,  102 

Bowler,  Richard,  87 

Bowman,  100 

Bowtell,  16,  29,  56,  69,  100,  109.  112 
Boxley,  90 
Bozeat,  32 

Bracker,  Austen,  51,  52 


188 


INDEX. 


Brakelond,  Jocclin  de,  52 

Jirazicr  (in  various  Bpelling),  3,  29,  82 

Bramficld,  50 

Br  end,  29,  74 

Brentford,  43 

Briant,  103 

Brinldey,  89,  98 

Brooke,  42  ^, , 

Broomfield,  84 

BucMand  Brewer,  102 

BulUsdon^  41 

Bungay,  51,  74 

Burney,  Dr,  83 

Burwell,  97 

Bury  St  Edmund's,  23,  32,  61,  88,  98 
Byrde,  38 

Caldecote,  13,  39,  41 
CalixtusIIL,  23 
Calthorpe,  13 
Cambridge: 

All  Saints,  3,  72,  74 

St  Andrew -the -Great,  71,  88, 
104,  113 

St  Andrew-the-Less,  60 

St  Benedict,  3,  4,  60,  65,  76, 
81,  98 

St  Botolph,  23,  24,  25 

St  Clement,  57,  94 

St  Edward,  33,  61,  62,  89,  90, 
107,  108 

St  Giles,  56 

St  Mary-tlie-Great,  16,  60,  67, 
72,  89,  99,  101,  103,  105,  107, 
108 

St  Mary-the-Less,  72 
■  St  Michael,  70,  72,  91,  94,  104, 
1.07 
St  Peter,  87 
Holy  Sepulchre,  61,  88 
Holy  Trinity,  60,  98 
St  Pet.  Coll.,  51 
Trin.  Hall,  104 
C.  G.  Coll.,  96 
St  Cath.  Coll.,  88 
Jes.  Coll.,  89 
Chr.  Coll.,  96 

King's  Coll.,  4,  14,  15,  25—29, 
57,  108 

St  John's  Coll.,  62,  186 

Trin.  Coll.,  85,  107 

Emman.  Coll.,  96 

extinct  churches,  55 
Camps,  Shudy,  97,  104 
Carleton,  35 

Caroline,  Queen,        for  her  acquittal, 

112 
Carr,  111 

Carriage,  cost  of,     R,  28,  93,  186 
Catechizing,  54 


Catthorpe,  52 
Chacojube,  99 
Chandler,  BicJiard,  95 
Change-ringing,  76 
Chardstock,  23 
Chatteris,  100 
Chertsey,  84 
Chesterton,  85,  107 
Cheveloy,  33,  97,  98 
Chichele,  Abp.,  28 
Childe,  96 
Childerley,  55 
Chippenham,  16,  64 
Chimes,  Chime-barrels,  105 
Chirme,  74 
ChriKhall,  30 
Chrism,  28 

Church,  Chyreh,  Chirche,  35,  69 

Clapper,  Pedenhall  Patent,  113 

Clapton-in-Gordano,  54 

Clark,  J.  W.,  14,  25,  26,  28,  29,  58,  18G 

Clarke,  George,  John,  84 

Clayton,  22 

Clement  YI,,  5 

Clochards,  56 — 58 

Clopton,  55 

Cloth  Subsidy,  seal  of,  64 
Cockfield,  63 
Coins  on  bells,  98 
Cok  (a  monk),  5,  6 
Coke,  28 
Colchester,  87 
Colles,  61 
Comberton,  97 
Conington,  12,  33,  51 
Consecration  of  bells,  28 
Cooke,  60,  61 
Cooper,  60 

Corbet,  "Jocular,"  107 
Cossington,  72 
Coton,  33,  64 
Cottonham,  103 
Cotton,  69 
Cox,  Pp.,  64 
Cradocke,  70 
Cripplegate,  105 
Croft,  Dr,  100 
Crotch,  Dr,  105 
Crowland,  2,  3,  52 
Croxton,  18,  185 
Cudham,  41 

Culver,  a  wood-pigeon,  43 
Cnlverden,  43,  44,  50 
Curfew,  59 

Darbie,  89,  90,  91 
Dawes,  llichard,  109 
Day,  103 

De  la  Warr,  Earl,  102 
Depdeii,  Essex,  37 


INDEX. 


189 


Derby,  IG 
Diddington,  57 
Dier,  Juhn,  84 
Ditton,  Fen,  85,  S8,  04 

Wood,  Id,  Gl,  G3,  05 
Dixson,  6G 
Dobson,  102,  104 
Doddiiigtou,  98 
Dodson,  70 
Dogget,  John,  25 
Downham-in-tlie-Isle,  3,  18G 
Downham  Market,  101,  102,  104 
Draper,  64,  65,  GG,  88 
Drayton,  Dry,  lOU 
Fen,  104 
Parslow,  95 
Duffield,  14 
Dullingliam,  65 
Duport,  Dr,  92 
D oxford  St  John,  97 
Duxford  St  Peter,  3,  84 
Dyrham,  16 

Eayre,  100 
Edingley,  13 

Edmonds,  Islip,  101,  102 

Edryngham,  Sh-  W.  de,  20 

Egekic,  Abbot,  3 

Eldrichie,  84 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  68  . 

EUacombe,  15,  21,  27,  52,  99 

ElHs,  W.  H.  M.,  Ill 

Ehn,  4,  98 

Elseiihani,  43 

Ely  Catliedral,  3,  4—10,  93 

Ely,  Holy  Trinitv,  33 

Ely,  St  Mary,  102 

Eltisley,  18,  85 

Emery,  Archd.,  Ill 

Emneth,  102 

Erelich,  Erlych,  60 

Erith,  5,  6 

Erthtyde,  35 

Esldiam,  28 

Evangelists,  emblems  of,  19 
Eversden,  Little,  97 
Eynesford,  90 
Exeter,  8 

Fairhght,  18 
Favine,48 
FeltweU,  90 
Fergus,  3 
Fitch,  51 
Flitwick,  85 

Fonder,  Danyell,  a  vin !.•!'  '■,  28,  36, 
Ford  Abbey,  30 
Fordham,  87 
Fordham,  Bp.,  59,  60 
Foulmire,  98 


Founders,  diliicultics  of,  94 
Fhxnulor,  ITy/t,,  21 
]'\uiicke,  aid.,  60  , 
Frankincense,  28 

French  ornamentation,  27,  49,  50,  63 
Fulbourn,  56,  102 
Furneaux  Pelham,  43,  98 

'   Gabriel  bell,"  33,  60 

Gardiner,  Tliomas,  97 

Gliein,  Vanden,  51 

Gibbs,  72 

Gifford,  109 

Gilpin,  Snviuel,  97 

Girton,  94 

Gloucester,  41 

JoJi.  de,  5 
Sandre  de,  10,  11 

Goche,  Dr,  70 

Goodwin,  Bp.,  9 

Gransden,  Little,  41 

Grantchester,  91 

Graveley,  85 

Graye,  87,  91,  93 

Greenwich  flospital  Clock,  101 

Guilds,  35,  44 

Gurney,  59,  71,  88 

Gurrowe,  46 

Gutlilac,  3 

Haddenham,  86,  90,  93,  94,  18G 

Halstead,  Essex,  64 

Hamond,  38 

Hampton  Court,  48 

Harding,  55 

Harrison,  John,  29 

Harrys,  Thomas,  29,  36,  48 

Hashngfield,  102 

Hausley,  Williani,  85 

"Haukes  Belles,"  4s 

Hawke,  Wilelmus,  28 

Play  ward,  46 

Plazlewood,  111 

Hedderley,  George,  14 

Hellesdon,  12 

HensJiaiv,  W.,  41 

Henry  V.,  28 

Henry  VI.,  27 

Heralds,  difliculties  with,  47 
Hermitage,  59 
Hesketh,  109 
Hessewell,  60 
Heytesbury,  19 
Hinton,  70 

Hinton,  Cherry,  13,  18,  59 
Ilodson,  88,  89,  91 
Iloldfeld,  liichard,  85,  107 
Holland,  4G 
Holloway,  Serj.,  91 
Holmes,  clockmaker,  101 


190 


INDEX. 


Holmes,  Gervna,  111,  113 
Holt,  John,  110 
Horningsey,  G-1,  65 
Horseheath,  104 
"Horynger,"  62 
Hull,  89 
Hurste,  66 

Hutt,  Bev.  W.  W.,in 

Ickleton,  3 

•'I  know  that  my  Eedeemer  liveth," 
movement  from,  taken  for  Cambridge 
chimes,  106 

Ilketshall,  St  Margaret,  20 

Impington,  18,  38,  88 

Incarsole,  109 

Indulgences,  60 

Ingnlphus,  2,  3 

de  risle.  Bp.,  5 

Isleham,  33,  91 

Islington,  52 

Itinerant  founders,  4 

St  Ives,  70,  98 

Jacklin,  66 
Jeffrie,  72 
Je^Yel,  55 

Jonson,  Ben,  quoted,  63 
Jowett,  "little",  105 
Jurden,  Henry,  26,  41,  50,  58 

Kearney,  111 
Keene,  88,  97 
Kelsale,  90 
Konnctt,  3,  30,  94 
Kentte,  60 
Kerrich,  109 
Kettering,  101 
Keynsham,  60 
King,  60,  69,  71 
Kingsbury,  38 
Kingston,  33,  46,  47 
Kirklington,  13 

Land,  WiUlnm,  62,  66 
Landbeach,  42,  61,  62 
Landwade,  30 
Langley,  109 
Lavenham,  87 
Laver-pots,  11,  48 
Lawrence,  TJiomas,  44 — 47 
Lay-folks  mass-book,  53 
Lectorn,  36 
Leicester,  71,  85 
Lester  and  Fad;,  5M,  103 
L'Estrange,  12,  OO,  ::•>,  52,  62 
Ley  land,  46 
Liquor,  spiced,  I'J 
Littleport,  64 
Lolworth,  97 


London,  14,  20,  28,  29,  41,  43,  46,  52, 

99,  103 
Loughborough,  102 
Louis  XVI.,  dumb  peal  for,  112 
Louvain,  48,  51 
Luard,  Eev.  Dr,  111 
Ludlam,  101 
Lulds,  19 
Lynn,  5,  6,  16,  93 

Madingley,  13,  14 

Manners,  Lord  Eobert,  dumb  peal  for, 
112 

Margarctting,  46 
Martin,  111 
Maulden,  84 

Mason,  Dr,  56,  71,  100,  109 
Mayo,  111 
iVears,  104 
Melbourne,  87,  95 
Melchbourne,  102 
Meldreth,  102 

Metals,  price  of,  5,  7,  8,  90,  186 
Metcalfe,  72 

Mildenhall,  Suffolk,  23,  25,  26,  54 
Mileham,  90 
Millington,  Dr,  60 
Monkton,  West,  27 
Morden,  Guilden,  23,  24 
Mortars,  51 
Mortlock,  111 
3Iott,  96 

Mowtlowe,  Dr,  70,  72 
Mumby,  19 

St  Neot's,  100 
Newconihe,  William.,  85 
Newman,  93,  94,  98 
Newmarket,  All  Saints,  97 
Newton,  20,  22,  23 
Newton  Bromswold,  32 
Newton-in-the-Isie,  102 
Nichohon,  15,  26,  66 
Ninfield,  20 
Norris,  66,  72,  75,  185 
North,  17,  21,  40,  52 
Northampton,  5,  6 

Northumberland,  D.  of,  dumb  peal  for. 
112 

Norton,  Herts.,  19 
Norwich,  29,  94,  101 
Nonoyco,  llllelvius  de,  12,  51 
Nottingham,  13,  14,  16,  86 

Obiits,  60 
Oldfu'ld,  16,  86 
OHver,  28 
Orwell,  94 

Oshorii,  TJKriiia.^,  102 
Osborne,  46 


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INDEX. 


191 


Oxhorongh,  03 
Oxford,  102 

Oxford  Crown  of  Charles  I.,  89 
Oxford,  Merton  College,  90,  91 
Oxford,  Tom  of,  88 

Pack,  103 

Paris,  103 

Parson  Drove,  102 

Peals,  occasional,  107  &C. 

Pebmarsli,  22 

Pega,  3 

Penkivel,  38 

Pemberton,  46 

Penn,  10,  98 

Peterborough,  98 

Peverell,  3 

Peyton,  33 

Phelps,  Richard,  99 

Pindar,  91 

Pleasant,  Henry,  97 

Plumptre,  58 

"Potter,"  36.  185 

Potterspury,  29 

Pottoe,  72 

Pratt,  63,  105 

Preston,  46 

Pretty,  06 

Prickwillow,  99 

Priest's  bell,  54 

Proctor,  Leonard,  111 

Protection,  48  —  ■ 

Quy,  91 

Hampton,  41 
Randall,  Dr,  103,  105 
Reading,  40 
Rebus,  42 
Reei^ham,  63 
Rees,  111 

"Requiem  Eternam,"   treutal  tune, 
105 

Reve,  Roger,  37,  48 
Risby,  33 
Robson,  70 
Roc,  109 
Rock,  Dr,  54 
Rocket,  111 
Rolleston,  13 
Rood-screens,  52 
Roper,  109 
Rowe,  111 

Royal  arms,  change  of,  21 

heads,  13,  16 

visits,  107 
Rumboldswyke,  84 
Rye,  hand-bell  at,  51 
Rvon,  46 


Sacring  bell,  53 
Safford,  104,  111 
Sanctus  bell,  53,  67 
Sangrede,  35 
Saunders,  John,  40 
Saxmundham,  19 
Scambler,  Bp.,  64 
Scarlette,  70,  72 
Shelford,  Great,  16,  65 

Little,  85,  97,  107 
Shepreth,  85,  97 
Sliouldham,  52 
Silver  ley,  55 
"  SkilletcB,"  3 
Slapton,  13,  14 
Smalwood,  67 
Smith,  K.  H.,  Ill 
Snailwell,  3,  33 
Soham,  .103,  112 
"Soller,"  58 

Southampton,  Earl  of,  107 
Soutliease,  14 

Southelmham,  St  Peter,  21 
Southmalling,  89 
Sperling,  95 
,  Stainhank,  58 
Stamford,  66,  72—75 
Stanstead  Mountfitchet,  50,  90 
Stapleford,  88 
Stedman,  Fabian,  76 
Steeple,  Dorset,  43 
Stetchworth,  12,  33,  61,  87 
Stow,  Long,  38 
Stowe-nine-Churches,  14 — 16 
Stratford  St  :Mary,  Suffolk,  43 
Stratton,  Long,  52 
Stretham,  64,  105 
Sturbridge  fair,  59 
Sudbury,  97 
Sullington,  50 
Sutton,  94,  98 
Sutton,  King's,  90 
Swaffham,  St  Cyriac,  3,  56 
Bulbeck,  102 
Prior,  103 

Swan,  111 

Tadlow,  39 
Takely,  43 
Tarring  Neville,  27 
Tat  win,  3 
Tai/lor,  59,  102 
TelDbit,  112 
Teversham,  59 
Thetford,  64 
Thornoy,  6,  8,  99 
Tliornton,  John,  97 
Thurlow,  G}-eat,  97 
Ting-tang,  53 — 55,  67 
Toft,  13,  14 


192 


INDEX. 


Tomson,  72 

Tonne,  48,  50,  59,  61— Gl 
Trafforcl,  Sigismuiid,  98 
Trendela,  trendull  (a  wheel),  G 
Triplow,  Tliriplow,  100 
Triimpingtoii,  33,  56,  91 
Tuvnoc,  17 
Turkety],  3 
Twineham,  26 
Tydd  St  Giles,  98 
Tymms,  1 
Tynny,  46,  48 

Tyssen,  14,  38,  40,  43,  50,  84 

Unction,  Extreme,  oil  for,  28 
Undcrhill,  22 
University  bell,  4,  69 

Venables,  72 
Venlo,  48 

Vesey,  Kev.  F.  G.,  Ill 

Walden,  Saffron,  88,  89 
Walsch  (?),  185 
Walsingham,  Alan  de,  4 — 9 
Wanlip,  17,  185 
IVarncr,  John  and  Sons,  105 
l]\trren,  07 
Waterhouse,  70 
Wattisfield,  64 
Watt^,  71,  101 
Wdylett,  John,  97 
Weeley,  42 


Welham,  72 
Welney,  84 
West,  38 

Westley  Waterless,  3 
Westminster,  education  at,  44 
Weston,  Buckliorn,  2(> 
Weston  Colville,  65,  104 
Whaddon,  90 

Whitechapel,  100,  101,  103,  l64 
Whittlesford,  98 
Wicken,  33,  01,  62,  64 

Breaux,  43 
Wickham,  West,  23,  24,  97 
Wicksted,  72 
Wilbraham,  Little,  61 
Wilbnrton,  102 
Willingbam,  100 
Wilson,  Dr,  Prof,  of  Music,  91 
Wimhish  (under  various  sjDclliug 
Wisbech,  60,  102 
Wood,  Anthony  \  90 
Wood,  John,  99 
Woodstock,  97 
Woolborough,  52 
Woolfe,  70 
WorHngton,  88 
Wratting,  West,  16,  97,  104 

York,  8,  17 

Yorke,  Joh.  de,  16,  17 

John,  69,  71 
♦'Youths,  Cambridge,"  108 


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This  supplementary  matter  on  the  Church  Bells  of  Cam- 
hridgcshire  is  rendered  necessary  in  the  first  place  by  the 
omission,  of  certain  parishes,  which  are  here  given  in  an 
Appoiid'x  (D),  and  in  the  second  place  by  the  imperfection 
of  the  Index,  which  I  made  on  a  rainy  Welsh  moining  from  the 
Treatise  only. 

Without  excusing  these  shortcomings,  it  is  perhaps  not 
amiss  that  there  should  be  an  opportunity  afforded  to  one 
whose  work  has  been  carried  out  in  the  face  of  many  difficulties, 
TO  add  a  few  words  of  explauation  cind  illustration  here  and 
til".' re,  besides  making  good  these  two  special  weak  places. 
Tlie  publication  of  Mr  EUacombe's  Church  Bells  of  Gloiicester- 
sliire,  and  Mr  Nnr'h's  GJiiivcli  Bells  of  Lincolnshire,  in  the 
coui'se  of  the  lasf  .  -.,  months,  will  enable  me  to  add  to  the 
detail  of  several  marks  found  in  Cambridgeshire. 

In  my  Preface  I  omitted  the  name  of  one  who  never  failed 
to  send  me  whatever  he  found  relating  to  bells  in  tho  accounts 
of  the  Bursars  of  various  colleges,  Mr  J.  W.  Clark,  M.A,,  Trinity 
College.  In  more  instances  than  one  these  items  proved  very 
useful  in  tracing  the  locality  of  the  seventeenth-century 
founders.  But  I  fear  that  I  have  failed  to  acknowledge  many 
helps,  and  in  some  instances  from  not  knowing  the  names  of 
my  lielpers. 

Here  I  may  thank  Miss  Frances  E.  Wyrley-Birch,  of 
Telegraph  House,  Great  Yarmouth,  for  the  great  pains  she  has 
taken  with  the  now  complete  Index.  She  has  shown  the  same 
care  in  doing  other  w^ork  which  I  hope  will  some  day  be  ex- 
tensively useful  to  the  historical  student. 

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194  THE  CHUIK'M  BELLS  OF  OAMBrJDGESHIRE. 

X          X  1 

Mr  Amherst  D.  Tyssen  corrects  my  interpretation  of  i  i  i  i  ■  ^ 

(of  which  I  myself  was  doubtful)  on  p]^.  G — 10.    I  suggested  a  | 

ten  for  each  unit  in  the  row  surmounted  by  the  double  x.    He  a 

has  no  doubt  that  it  means  fourscore,  and  refers  to  a  tomb  51 

in  Canterbury  Cathedral,  and  a  bell  (of  which  he  has  a  rubbing)  •  J 

and  a  tomb  in  France.    He  adds  that  the  meaning  is  more  *  j 

obvious  in  a  country  where  quatre-vingt  is  the  only  name  for  80.  |  « 

I  am  quite  disposed  to  accept  this  correction,  wondering  at  ■  ] 

^.  .  }  .  ■■ 

the  same  time  wdiy  threescore  is  not  noted  i  i  i  instead  of  LX. 

The  weight  of  the  bell  named  Jesus,  cast  in  xVlan  de  Wal- 
singham's  doys  for  Ely  Cathedral,  will  then  have  been  37  cwt. 
92  lbs. 

The  Bishop  of  Carlisle  draw\s  my  attention  to  the  fact  that 
Burton  in  his  Admirahle  Curiosities  has  taken  his  account  of 
the  Ely  Lantern  from  Thomas  Fuller.  I  regret  that  I  have  not 
at  hand  the  complete  works  of  that  most  delightful  old  writer, 
but  his  Lordsliip  quotes  a  choice  obsolete  word  used  by  Fuller,  :  I 
that  the  joints  of  the  woodwork  yoch  in  again  after  gaping  when  i  ''■ 
the  bells  ring.  < 

Mr  Lukis  tells  me  that  the  Seal  of  Sandre  de  Glocetre  was 
in  the  possession  of  the  late  Mr  Albert  Way,  F.S.A.    It  may  , 
possibly  remain  in  the  hands  of  his  representatives.     The  xi 
ecclesiastic;i  ,  ^  >in  of  the  Seal  is  to  be  noted,  and  likewise  the  •  ^ 
Star,  in  iliis  casu  Avitli  six  rays.    Mr  EUacombe  suggests  two  | 
hypotheses  as  to  these  Gloucester  founders,  (1)  that  John  and  \ 
Sandre  Avere  the  same  person,  bearing  the  full  name  of  John  . 
Sanders,  and  this  he  strengthens  by  a  reference  to  the  second  :  'j 
bell  of  Gloucester  Cathedral,  apparently  of  the  right  period,  /  ^ 
and  bearing  the  initials  1.  S.    Such  a  designation  as  surname  '  ^ 
and  locality,  though  usual  enousfh  now,  would  not  suit  with  the 
middle  of  the  fourteenth  century — (2)  that  John  and  Sandre  ■  'j 
were  brothers  \    All  that  we  can  infer  is  that  which  lies  on  the  , 
surface,  that  they  were  Gloucester  men.  ' 

The  initial  cross  (fig.  S)  found  at  Madingley,  &c.,  figured  on 

p.  18,  has  been  noted  by  Mr  North  as  on  a  bell  inscribed  with  ;  | 

the  Salutation  at  Magdalen  College  School,  Wainfleet'.    The  j 

^  EUacombe,  ChurcJi  Bells  of  Gloncestersliire,  p.  3.  j|l 
"  North,  Church  Hells  of  Lincolnshire ,  p.  72G.  y 


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SUPPLEMENT. 


195 


School  was  founded  by  William  of  Waynflete  in  1484,  and  very 
possibly  the  bell  may  have  hung  there  from  that  time,  but 
I  should  certainly  take  it  to  be  a  century  earlier  in  date. 

My  note  on  p.  16  as  to  the  marks  belonging  to  a  founder 
named  Derby  having  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Oldfield 
family  is  further  illustrated  by  Mr  North,  .who  shows  that  our 
fig.  7,  presumably  on  the  tMrd  of  the  old  five  at  King's  College, 
is  used  by  Henry  Oldfield  the  elder,  who  was  living  in  1558. 
The  "Royal  Heads''  (figs.  4  and  G)  are  found  by 'Mr  North  in 
ccnijunction  with  a  Virgin  and  Child  used  by  Joiiannes  YorJce, 
who  made  the  old  4th  at  St  Mary's  the  Great,  and  with  other 
niarks  and  shields  belonging  to  many  districts,  and  requiring  a 
treatise  by  themselves.  A  bell  belonging  to  Chester  Cathedral, 
and  recently  removed  to  St  Oswald's  Church,  apparently  bears 
the  head  of  Edward  III.  (fig.  4).  There  is  a  mixture  of  lettering 
in  this  case  which  requires  a  careful  examination,  the  more 
so  as  some  dissatisfaction  has  been  felt  as  to  the  removal  of  this 
bell  from  the  Cathedral. 

Tlie  connection  of  the  "  moon-and-stars "  shield  (fig.  19) 
with  the  group  of  stamps  used  by  "William  ffoundor"  and 
afterwards  by  Henri/  Jurden,  is  proved  by  the  2nd  and  3rd 
at  ^[umby,  Lincolnshire,  which  also  bear  a  cross  found  with 
those  stamps,  as  v.cl'  as  with  the  initials  J.  S.,  supposed  to 
be  JoJin  Saunders  wi'  V.oadinir. 

Mr  North  finds  in  Lincolnshire  plenty  of  the  well-known 
figures  Avhich  appear  on  pp.  20 — 24  of  my  book,  but  he  adds 
only  one  piece  of  information  about  them.  This,  however, 
is  important,  as  confirming  Bowtell's  testimony,  and  the  pencil 
sketch  of  the  King's  inscriptions  as  found  in  the  Munimeiit- 
Chest,  in  opposition  to  the  more  elaborate  sketch  in  ink. 

The  former  give  1.  D.  as  the  initials  on  the  first  of  the  King's  • 
five,  in  opposition  to  I.  E.  in  the  latter. 

Now  at  Torksey  the  treble  bears  the  initials  I.  D.  with  the 
shield  (fig.  37),  and  a  cross  not  engraved  by  us.  This  shield  only 
differs  from  that  at  Kino-'s  in  beinc^  uncrowned,  and  the  cross  in 
Mr  North's  Lincolnshire,  Plate  III.,  is  apparently  identical  with 
that  given  in  the  pen-and-ink  sketch.  There  can  be  little 
doubt,  then,  that  the  initials  are  in  both  cases  I.  D.,  and  that 

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THE  CHURCPT  BELLS  OF  CAMBKIDGESHIRE. 


they  pertain  to  the  bell-founder,  whoever  he  was,  and  not 
to  Provost  Dogg-et,  as  Bowtell  thought\  I  see  that  Mr  North 
still  hankers  after  attaching  the  surname  Underhill  to  "  William 
ffoundor,"  thoagh  he  acknowledges  by  letter  that  the  chevron 
between  three  trefoils  is  borne  b}''  other  families. 

I  have  by  mistake  ^Hotted  a  capital  A,  (fig.  30)  to  William 
ffoundor.  Mr  Pearson,  of  Clare,  points  out  that  it  belongs  to 
the  smaller  Norwich  alphabet.  It  is  not  out  of  place  in  our 
book,  however,  occurring  at  Kennett.  Blocks  25,  33,  3G  are 
upside  down.  It  is  not  material  in  their  case,  in  fact  ''of  no 
consequence  at  all,"  as  Mr  Toots  says.  In  36  it  is  better  so, 
as  reversing  a  blunder  of  the  engraver's,  not  employed  by  our 
Society. 

Mr  Pearson  disputes  the  existence  of  fig.  55  at  Coton.  I 
have  had  the  bell  examined,  and  I  think  that  it  is  the  same 
design  of  stop  as  55,  only  somewhat  enlarged. 

A  more  serious  difficulty  arises  about  the  heads  on  figs.  60 
and  62.  I  certainly  thought  them  to  be  representative  of  the 
same  head.  A  closer  examination  of  the  2nd  at  Caldecote  would 
settle  the  question,  but  I  cannot  visit  the  place. 

One  of  the  few  Louvain  bells  alluded  t;)  on  p.  51  has 
perished.  Till  lately  at  Church  Kirk,  near  Accrington,  there 
wei-e  two  be!'  ')n<'  25  inches  high,  inscribed: — MAliTA  BEN  IC 
VAN  PEKTKll  \  \ l")KN  GUl'TN  GfTEGOTEN  INT  lAER  1537.  These 

two,  Mr  Owen  of  Rhodes  informs  me,  are  superseded  by  a  ring 
of  six. 

At  p.  52  I  discussed  the  Sacring  and  Sanctus  bells,  together 
with  certain  other  small  bells,  merely  designated  at  Whittlesea 
St  Mary's,  as  "ij  handbells."  A  paper  in  the  Transactions  of 
tJie  Essex  Archceological  Society,  by  Mr  H.  W.  King^,  throws 
'some  light  upon  the  purpose  to  which  these  handbells  were 
probably  put.    Thus  in  the  Inventories  made  under  Lord  Rich 

1  I  have  just  found  further  confirmation  of  this  in  Bildeston  tower,  where  the 
treble  is  inscrihed  5anctc  tToma  ©ra  ^3vo  J^alns,  and  bears  the  initials  I.  D. 
with  the  crowned  Koyal  Arms  (fig.  35)  and  a  cross  (fig.  25).  Perhaps  a  good 
scrubbing  at  the  treble  at  Cambridge  St  Botolph's,  might  show  up  I.  D.  there 
too,  instead  of  L  0.  The  I  is  engraved  by  Mr 'Ellacombe,  p.  I2G,  in  his  Church 
Bells  of  DiTo)!,  from  Woolborongh  in  that  county. 

^  Transact. -ns,  Vol.  ii.  Part  ni.  New  Series,  pp.  223,  &c. 


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197 


iind  his  fellow-commissioners  in  1552  we  lind  at  High  Laver 
"It.  ij  Rogacione  bells  in  weight  ix  li,"  at  "  Abbas  Rodyng" 
"Itm  ij  Rogation  Bells  and  a  nother  lytell  bell,"  at  "Chygwell" 
"  ij  Rogacion  Bells,"  and  at  Greensteade  "  "  It.  ij  Rogacion  Bells 
in  weight  x  li."  It  is  notable  that  the  term  "  Rogation  Bells  " 
only  occurs  in  the  Inventories  for  the  Ongar  Hundred.  I  have 
been  unable  to  examine  the  Cambiidgeshire  Inventories,  but 
tlie  term  is  not  used  in  the  few  instances  which  have  come  into 
my  hands. 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  smaller  handbells  were 
used  in  the  Litanies  at  the  Rogations,  though  not  always  called 
by  the  name.  My  theory  as  to  the  distinction  of  "  Sanctus " 
and  "  Sacryng "  bells  does  not  receive  confirmation  from  the 
Essex  Inventories,  for  at  "  Layton  (Hundr.  de  Bekentree) "  we 
have  "  Item  a  little  Sancte  bell  hanging  in  the  Quear."  But 
the  use  of  these  bells  to  signify  the  beginning  of  Service  is 
shown  in  the  East  Ham  Inventory,  It.  a  little  bell  res'ued  to 
warn  the  people  at  the  begynnyng  of  dyvyne  s'vice  by  estima- 
tiun  one  pound." 

I  have  a  little  more  to  say  about  the  post-Reformation 
founders.  With  regard  to  Stephen  Tonni  and  his  Romanist 
inscriptions  in  the  Armada  year  (p.  Go)  I  was  desirous  of  in- 
furniatiun  about  ...'ui  Prat  of  Wood  Ditton.  Nothing  definite 
has  come  to  haiiii.  ljut  it  seems  that  the  Pratts  of  Ryston, 
Norfolk,  were  generally  entertainers  of  reactionary  views,  if 
not  of  reactionary  emissaries.  The  name  occurs  in  suspicious 
connection  in  Dr  Jessopps  highly  interesting  and  suggestive 
notes .  on  the  Walpole  family.  "  Shortly  before  Lady  Jer- 
mingham's  death  she  had  been  reported  as  entertaining  in  her 
house  at  Cossey  a  popish  mass  priest,  one  Mr  Pratt,  who  how- 
ever must  have  died  about  the  time  that  the  intelligence  was 
furnished,  for  I  find  that  he  was  buried  at  Cossey  on  the  17th 
April,  1582 \"    We  shall  get  at  John  Pratt  some  day. 

John  Clarke's  bells  are  so  rare  (see  p.  84)  that  I  note  a 
few  more  w^hich  have  come  to  light : — Cold  Brayfield,  Bucks, 

'  Dr  Jessopp's  One  Generation  nj  a  Norfolk  Hovai',  p.  204.  The  extract 
fvom  the  Cossey  Pef^iater  merely  gives  us  "yepultu'  fuit  liicharcl  [sic]  Pratt 
17°  tlie  Aprilis,"  p.  Jiy. 


198'  THE  CIlUllCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBiUDGESlililE. 

treble,  1G07;  Wormington,  Gloucestershire,  2nd  (now  cracked), 
undated;  Wrentliam,  Suffolk,  2nd,  1606.  The  last  bears  the 
pentacle. 

The  Holdfields  and  Oldfields  would  be  objects  of  interest  if  it 
were  only  to  show  the  antiquity  of  the  abuse  of  '  poor  letter  H.' 
Mr  Pearson  notes  that  the  stamp,  no.  82,  used  by  the  Norris 
family,  of  Stamford,  appears  at  Little  Shelford  ord  with  no.  83, 
which  is  misprinted  13  on  p.  165.  Mr  North  writes  to  me  that, 
Richard  Jloldfeld  maij  have  sot  up  his  furnace  at  Cambridge, 
but  he  cast  bells  at  Hertford."  The  shield  given  here  (hg.  91)  is 
on  the  first  three  at  Melbourne.  The  word  "rose"  is  misprinted 
''  cross"  in  my  account  of  that  peal  on  p.  159. 

However  contemptible  the  letter  H  may  be  to  the  Mercian 
mind  I  cannot  think  that  Richard  Holdfeld  w;  uld  have  allowed 


Fig.  91. 

his  initials  to  go  forth  as  R.  0.,  and  I  am  inclined  to  attribute 
the  shield  to  "  llohart  Oldfeild,''  whose  -name  I  have  found 
at  Stanstead  Abbots,  Hertfordshire,  on  the  tenor,  bearing  date 
1605.  He  uses  the  Stamford  cross  (fig.  81).  In  a  pedigree  of 
the  family  drawn  up  by  Mr  North  in  his  Cliurdi  Bells  of  Lin- 
colnsJiire^,  he  assumes  Richard  Holdfeld  and  Robart  Oldfoild  to 
be  sons  of  Henry  Oldfield  by  his  first  wife,  Mary  Spencer  of 
Congleton,  and  George  Oldfield  to  be  son  of  Henry  by  his 

1  OpiDosite  p.  125. 


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190 


.srcoiul  wife,  Constance  Pearson,  probably  of  Nottingham. 
Ivobarfc  Oldfeild  casta  bell  for  Shillington,  Bedfordshire,  in  1618. 
'i'lie  last  bell  founder  of  the  family,  a  second  George,  died 
in  1741,  and  lies  in  the  churchyard  of  St  Mary's,  Nottingham. 

My  searches  after  "  Colchester  Graye "  have  as  yet  been 
in  vain,  save  that  one  co^nes  across  curious  little  side-views 
(}(  the  times.  Margaret  Graye  in  1656  was  imprisoned  in 
Colchester  Castle,  as  a  Quaker,  for  declarijig  the  truth  in 
"  Peter  s  Steeple  Housed"  She  is  described  as  of  Stanway, 
I  ho  registers  of  which  parish  begin  in  1704,  and  contain  bat 
one  Gray,  Eebecca,  an  infant,  who  was  born  and  died  in  1715. 
St  Leonard's  parish,  near  the'  ancient  Hythe,  appeared  the 
most  likely  one  for  a  foundry.  The  register,  however,  contains 
neither  Bowler  nor  Graye,  but  there  are  no  entries  from  1661 
to  Dec.  1666,  except  the  ominous  words  "no  minister  in  the 
jiarisb."  I  searched  the  registers  in  Holy  Trinity  parish,  finding 
no  Graye  and  only  one  late  Bowler. 

Augustine  Boiuler  cast  bells  in  Lincolnshire  from  1629 
to  16471  . 

About  Richard  Chandler  of  Drayton  Parslow,  I  have  er- 
roneously said  (p.  95)  that  the  Melbourne  tenor  is  the  only 
Vu'll  of  his  in  the  county.  There  are  also  the  2nd  and  3rd  at 
Guilden  Mordeii  iu.  '  'he  4t]i  at  GamliDgay. 

With  regard  In  !  i.  j  Cambridge  chimes,  I  find  that  Dr  Crotch 
was  born  at  Norwich,  July  5th,  1775,  so  that  he  was  about 
eighteen  years  old  at  the  time  of  his  composing  them.  Witli 
liis  marvellous  precocity  eighteen  might  represent  an  ordinary 
man's  thirty-six.  The  Rev.  Henry  W.  Hutton  sends  me  from 
Vicar's  Court,  Lincoln,  the  following  lines,  set  to  the  fourth 
(^narter  : — 

"Lord,  through  this  hour, 
Be  Thou  my  guide; 
So  by  Thy  power 
No  foot  shall  slide," 

He  will  be  very  glad  to  know  their  origin,  about  which  I  cannot 
tell  him. 

■   1  llv  C.  Golding  to  me,  15  April,  1882. 

NoiLi's  Church  Bdh  of  Lincohishirt^  p.  139. 


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200  THE  CHURCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE.  | 

The  Cambridge  chimes  are  now  heard  from  our  new  Town 
Hall  at  Yarmouth,  and  I  believe  that  they  brighten  up  many  a  ' 
life. 

In  the  Addenda,  &c.,  p.  185,  near  the  foot  of  the  page,  for 
p.  97  read  p.  53. 

Mr  K.  II.  Smith's  aote  on  p.  186  refers  to  Littleport,  not  to 
Downham-in-the-Isle. 

I  have  heard  nothing  to  alter  my  views  about  the  origin  of 
the  words  Camjjana  and  JYola,  discussed  in  Appendix  A.  The 
established  error  is,  however,  too  deep-rooted  to  be  grubbed  up 
save  by  slow  degrees.  j 

A  Avriter  in  the  Saturday  Review^  has  brought  it  out  again. 
It  has  survived  my  refutation,  I  ! 

"  And  so  'twill  be  when  I  am  gone,  " 

That  baseless  tale  will  still  ring  'on,  j  .^^ 

And  cribsters  yet  unborn  will  tell  fc'  ^ 

How  Paulin  introduced  the  Bell."  I  i 


1  27  May,  ]882. 


If 


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I 
I 


APPENDIX  D. 


OMITTED  PARISHES  AND  ADDITIONAL  NOTES. 

8.  BARRINGTON. 

All  Saints. 

A  frame  such  as  that  indicated  on  p.  120  consisted  of  cages,  and  the 
term  gave  rise  to  the  following  riddle  : — 

"Tho'  of  great  age 

I'm  kept  in  a  cage 

■Having  a  long  tail  and  one  ear, 

j\Iy  mouth  it  is  round, 

And  when  joys  do  abound 

Oh!  then  I  sing  wonderful  clear." 
That  there  ni;iA-  !    _    mistake  about  the  answer,  it  is  given  in  words  as 
well  lis  by  an  ilhu>i.r;ui> jii.    Tiie  picture  speaks  for  itself;  the  legend  below 
says,  "  It  is  a  bell  in  a  steeple ;  the  rope  betokens  a  tail  and  the  ^vheel  an 
ear."  Ashton's  Chaphooks  of  the  Eightemtli  Cerdarij. 


33  a.  CAMBRIDGE. 

St.  Paul  ■  1  Bell. 

1.     THOMAS  MEARS  FOUNDER  LONDON,  1841,. 


46.  CAMBRIDGE. 

Sej^usi  College* 

The  following  are  the  extracts  from  the  accounts  of  this  College, 
referred  to  at  p.  87.  They  were  kindly  communicated  by  ]\Ir  J.  W.  Clark, 
M.A.,  Trin.  Coll. 


I 


I 


202 


THE  CliUllCH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


In  Gapelld. 

Paid  to  Christopher  Gray  of  Ampthil  in  Bedfordshire 

Bell  founder  for  the  new  casting  of  the  Chappel-Bell    06    15  00 


1658—59 

For  carriage  and  bringing  back  the  Bell  .  .  .01  03  09 
To  Hen.  Rawlinson  that  went  along  w"'  y*^  Bell  and  saw 

it  cast        .       .    00    10  00 

To  the  Carpenter  for  work  about  the  Bell  .  .  .  00  17  07 
To  the  Smith  for  work  alx)ut  the  Bell  .  .  .  .  00  14  00 
To  scN-eral  Porters  employ'd  about  taking  down  y*^ 

Bell,  etc   00    06  00 


48.  CAMBRIDGE. 

3oI)u'£J  College*  2  Beiis. 


.  The  following  extract  relates  to  one  which  has  passed  away  : — 

"that  most  famous  and  fortunate  Nurse  of  all  learning,  Saint  Johns  in 
Camhridgc  that  at  that  time  was  as  an  Vniuersitie  within  it  selfe  ;  shining 
so  farre  aboue  all  other  Houses,  Halls,  and  Hospitalls  whatsoeuer,  that  no 
Col  ledge  in  the  Townc,  was  able  to  compare  with  the  tythe  of  her 
Students ;  hauing  (as  I  haue  hearde  graue  men  of  credite  report)  more 
candles  light  in  it,  euerie  Winter  Morning  before  fowre  of  the  clocke,  than 
the  fowre  of  clocke  bell  gaue  stroakes..."  Thomas  Nashe, in  his  address  To 
the  Of'ntlcrnan  Students,  prefixed  to  R.  Greene's  Jfcna/jhon,  1589.  Quoted 
in  Professor  Arljcr's  Introduction  to  Ascham's  Scholcniastcr. 


48  a.  CAMBRIDGE. 

illagtialene  College.  i  Belt. 

1.  (No  inscription.) 
A  small  modern  bell. 


74.    DITTON,  FEN. 

St  Marij.  o  Bells. 

"A  Ring  of  five  bells  has  been  hung  iii  the  rebuilt  tower  of  Fen  Ditton  ' 
Church,  near  Cambridge,  by  ]\Iessrs  Lewis  and  Co.,  of  Brixton,  Surrey. 
The  treble  bell  bears  the  date  1623,  and  had  four  coeval  companions;  but 
these  were  so  damaged  by  the  fire  which  consumed  the  Pectory  barn, 
where  they  had  been  placed  during  the  rebuilding  of  the  tower,  that  they 
had  to  be  recast.    This  has  been  done  most  successfully  by  ]\Ir  Lewis; 


AiTENDiX  D. 


203 


iiiid  the  bells  were  rung,  to  the  great  delight  of  the  people  of  Dittoii,  on 
the  eve  and  again  at  intervals  throughout  the  day,  of  the  re-opening  of  the 
church,  last  Tuesda}'  week.  The  tenor  Ijell  weighs  about  11  cwt.,  and 
hears  the  inscription,  Te  Deum  Laudamus,  The  fourth,  third,  and  second 
arc  inscribed  respectively,  Benedicam  Domino,  Exav.dl  Deus,  and  Attendite 
pnpuli  (sic),  with  tlie  date  1881.  The  old  treble  l^ears  only  the  naiiies 
of  the  churchwardens  of  its  year." — Church  Bells,  Dec.  10,  1881. 

I  draw  attention  to  this  statement,  to  show  its  inaccuracy  l)y  a  com- 
parison with  the  old  insciiptions.  Fortunately  we  ha\-e  preserved  the 
iKiiae  of  the  1623  founder,  William  Hausley,  which  has  not  l3een  found 
elsewhere,  as  well  as  those  of  the  1692  Churchwardens.  This  recasting  is  a 
.specimen  of  the  way  in  wdiich  local  history  perishes. 


83.  ELM. 

All  Saints. 

AVilliam  Gyles  was  Vicar  of  Elm  from  1599  to  1641.  The  indifferent 
liexameter  on  the  old  4th  was  probably  his  own.  "Witness  his  lines  on  his 
wife  Rachel,  in  Emneth  Chancel, 

"  Ilestauranda  die  domini  tidissima  conjux, 
Hie  sita  Gulielmi  Gyles  requiesce  Rahel." 

Watson's  Ilistorf/  of  Wisbech,  p.  499. 

83  a.  ELSWORTH. 

Ilohj  Trinitij.  4  Bells. 

1.  NON  VOX  Si  n        I'VM    NON  MVSICA  COKDEALA  SED  COU.  1G28. 

2.  (No  inscriplioLi.  j 

3.  [-1-  ]  cvM  ::  moveo  ::  ad  ::  moneo  ::  ii,  :  c.  t  :  a.  : 

niYRCIIWARDENS,  IGIG. 

4.  CHRISTOPHER  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1675, 

The  treble  probably  by  Thomas  Norris.  See  North's  Church  Bells  of 
Xorthamptonshire,  p,  96. 


85.    ELY  CATHEDRAL. 

Mr  Carlyle  notes  in  his  visit  to  Ely  in  Sept.  or  Oct.  1842,  "Sleepless 
night,  owing  to  Cathedral  bells  ^"  He  appears  to  have  had  refreshing 
thoughts  of  Oliver  Cromwell's  "short  and  easy  method"  of  controversy 
with  the  Rev.  Mr  Hitch,  who  would  not  stop  the  service  at  Oliver's  bidding, 
"  Jjcave  your  fooling.  Sir,  and  come  down." 


^  Fronde'.  Rcminisccnccfi  of  Thomas  Carlyle,  ii.  225. 


204 


THE  CHUllGH  BELLS  OF  CAMBRIDGESHIKE. 


92.  FOXTON. 


St  Lawrence. 

1.  2.  4.      MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1654. 

3.  RECAST  BY  JOHN  WARNER  AND  SONS  LONDON  1881.  H.  C. 
AVIIITTINGTON,   B.A.  VICAR^^.  JOHN  ROADS  CHURCHWARDEN. 

5.  RECAST  BY  JOHN  \VARNER  AND  SONS  LONDON  1881.  H.  C. 
WHITTINGTON,   B.A.   VICAR,  JOHN  ROADS  CHURCHWARDEN. 

Hung  by  G.  Day  and  Son,  Eye.  The  inscription  on  the  old  3rd 
was : 

THO.  NEWMAN  OP  NORWICH  FECIT.  W.  RAYNER  AND  W.  BATTESON 
C.   W.  1729. 

Diameters  ft.  in. 


(From  Mr  G.  Day,  June  11,  1882.) 

101.  GUYHIRN. 

St  Mary  Magdalen. 
Date  of  til.-  I  --'  h'ng,  16GG. 


107  a.    HATLEY,  ST  GEORGE. 

(Dedication?)  2  Bells. 

1.  +  QUI.IIABET.AURES.AURIENDI.AURIAT  R.  C.  MIL^  D.  C.  ANNO 
DOM.   MDCLXXXII  X   TOBIE  •  NORRIS  •  CAST  •  ME. 

2.  +  VENITE.ET.AUDITE-OMNES.QUI.TIMETIS.DEUM.  T.  C.  BAr''. 
D.   C.   ANNO  DOM.  MDCLXII  +  TOBIE  •  NORRIS  •  CAST  •  ME. 

Both  bear  on  the  waist  a  large  shield— 1  and  4  a  saltire,  2  and  3  an 
eagle  displayed.    See  p.  75,  1.  26. 


1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 


2 
2 
2 
2 
3 


III.  HINXTON. 


St  Mary. 
■  Priest's  bell.    (No  inscription.) 


APPENDIX  D. 


205 


112  a.    HISTON.  . 

St  Etlieldreda. 
Ecclesia  destructa. 

iI5.  ICKLETON. 

St  Mary  Magdalene. 
Priest's  bell.    (No  inscription.) 


119.  KINGSTON. 

All  Saints  and  St  Andrew. 
Sanctus  Bell,  1845. 
Diameter  13  in. 


143.  NEWMARKET. 

All  Saints.  8  Bells. 

G.  HEARS  AND  STAINBANK  POUNDERS  LONDON  1876.  GIVEN  BY 
A.  F.  GOVETT  ESQ.  LONDON. 

7.  HEARS  AND  STAINBANK  FOUNDERS  LONDON  1876.  GIVEN  BY 
DU  GRAY  OF  NJAVM AUICKT. 

8.  MEARS  ANM>  .NBAXK  FOUNDERS  LONDON  187G.  GIVEN  BY 
E.   K.   HARVEY   ESQ.  NORWICH. 

"We  have  now  8  sweet  bells,  all  tuned,  in  new  frames  and  well  hung  in 
a  new  tower,  and  all  paid  for,  thank  God  ! "  The  Rev.  T.  Eomaine  Govett 
to  me,  10  Dec.  1881. ' 


144.    NEWTON  (IN-THE-ISLE). 

St  James. 

Cost  of  the  peal  £98.  Qs.  9c/.    Watson's  llistorij  of  Wishech^  p.  479. 


159.    SHELFORD,  LITtLE. 

3.    For  13  read  83.    No.  82  is  also  on  this  bell. 


20G 


THE  church:  bells  of  CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 


185.  TYDD. 

St  Giles. 

Mr  Sigismund  Trafford,  who  was  the  author  of  an  Essa^/  on  Draining, 
died  ill  1740i. 


200  a.  WILBURTON. 

8t  Peter.  5  Bells.  ' 

1.  MILES  GRAYE  MADE  ME  1651.      R.  T.  T.  B. 

2.  CHARLES  NEWMAN  MADE  ME  1695:  JOHN  TAYLOR  AND  SON 
FOUNDERS  LOUCUIBOROUGII.  THIS  BELL  WAS  RECAST' AT  THE  EXPENSE 
OF  THE  HON.  MARGARET  LETITIA  MATILDA  DAME  PELL,  1850. 

3.  (ISTo  inscription.) 

4.  1661. 

0.  I  MEAN  TO  TELL  THAT  THIS  BELL  WAS  THE  FREE  GIFT  OF 
THOMAS  TOWER  ESQ.  TO  THE  TOWN  OF  WILBURTON  IN  THE  YEAR  1661. 
RECAST  AT  THE  EXPENSE  OF  THE  HON.  MARGARET  LETITIA  MATILDA 
DAME  T'ELL,  1880.  JOHN  TAYLOR  AND  SON  FOUNDERS  LOUGH- 
BOUOUGJI. 

On  tlic  waist  are  the  arras  of  Tower  : — 2\z.  a  Tower,  Or.  The  fourth 
and  the  old  innov  are  said  to  he  i\liles  Graye's. 


207.  WISBECH. 

8t  Peter. 

"Pi^eviously  (to  1823)  the  ohlest  bore  date  a.d.  1566,  another  1608,  and 
a  third  1(340-." 


1  "Watson's  History  uf  Wisht'cJi,  p.  435. 
-  Ibid  p.  243. 


} 


^01 

NOTE  ON  A  BELL  AT  TAKELY  IN  ESSEX  MADE  BY 
WILLIAM  CULYERDEN.    Sek  Page  43. 


Since  the  completion  of  the  Supplement  I  ■  have  been 
favoured  witli  a  rubbing  pf  the  inscription  on  a  bell  at  Takely, 
Essex,  through  the  kindness  of  the  Rev.  R.  J.  Hart,  Yicar  of 
tlie  parish.  This  bell  is  mentioned  on  p.  43  as  one  of  William 
Culverden's,  and  it  bears  his  remarkable  rebus  (fig.  64)  together 
with  the  coin  and  cross  Avhich  appear  on  the  Landbeach  tenor. 
Tlie  legend  is 

This  then,  apparently,  was  Culverden's  first  essay,  and  t1ie 
pentameter  probably  his  own  composition.  \Ye  learn  from  his 
wilP  that  he  was  educated  in  the  Abbey  at  Westminster,  and 
it  throws  some  light  on  the  studies  pursued  by  those  who  be- 
came active  tradesmen  in  after  life  to  find  elei^iacs  familiar  to 
l1iom.  The  men  of  that  day  do  not  seem  to  have  sympathized 
with  the  bald  utilitarianism  with  which  we  are  now  deafened. 
Culverden  gratefully  remembers  Westminster  in  his  will,  and 
(as  one  may  say)  advertises  his  old  School  by  writing  a  good 
pentameter.  IIorrMn  he  excels  his  London  predecessors,  only 
one  of  whom  iH' >  ■  aires  to  write  a  pentameter,  and  that  a  bad 
one  : — 

+  Fo.x  ^ugusttni  Sonet  m  ^ure  Bif'. 

Taking  into  account  the  date  of  Culverden's  death,  1523, 
and  the  small  number  of  bells  of  his  remaining,  his  earliest 
date  is  about  1512,  and  the  years  of  his  school  life  would  range 
from  1490 — 1500,  or  thereabouts. 

Gbeat  Yarmouth, 
11  iVor.  1882. 


1  p.  44. 


'  See  Bartlow  treble,  p.  121. 


INDEX  TO '  THE  WHOLE  AVORK. 

N.B.    Names  in  Italics  are  those  of  Bell-foiinders, 


Abendon,  Dr,  Warden  of  Merton,  90 
Abington,  Great,  117 

  Little,  57,  84,  117 

  Pigotts,  117 

Adams,  1-19,  153,  162 
Aginconrt,  28 

Aix-la-cliapelle,  Peace  of,  ringing  for, 
109 

Alan,  rector  of  St  Benedicts,  4 
Alcock,  Bishop  of  Ely,  GO,  153 
Ah'ijn,  Jolt.,  14 
Alien  craftsmen,  48 
Alien  priories,  28 
Alington,  Sir  Giles^  152 
Allen,  172 
Allonby,  11 

Amps,  105  *  y 

Ampthill,  89,  202 

Anable,  110 

Angel  stamp,  16,  17 

Angelus  or  Ave  bell,  60,  154 

Angorsleigh,  51 

Angier,  137 

Ansell,  John,  167 

AnvB,  46 

Apollonia,  St,  126 
Apthorpe,  126,  147 
Arber's  Reprints,  154,  202 
Argent,  111 
Armada  year,  63 
Armagh,  Abp  of,  2 

Arnold,  Echvd,  102, 118,  131, 137, 141, 

142,  143,  145,  100,  164 
Arnold,  J.,  149 
Arrington,  84,  116 


Arthingworth,  173 
Ashley,  55,  118 
Aspland,  94 

Assumption   of  the  Virgin,    12,  51, 
63 

Avebury,  99 
Aylsh'm  Robarte,  5,  9 

Baalam,  A.,  141 
Babraham,  3,  118 
Bacchus,  E.,  137 
Badham,  Dr,  89 
Bagley,  99 
Baldrick,  4 
Bale,  126 
Ball,  73 

Balshnm,  50,  118,  119 

  Hugh  de,  4 

Banbury,  99 
Banhes,  167 
Baret,  61 
Barnes,  176 

Barnet,  Piev.  Thos.,  142 

Barnet,  139 

BarnNvell,  3,  60 

Barre  Garreagh,  2 

Barrington,  87,  105,  120,  121,  201 

'*  Bartholomew,"  a  bell  named,  3 

  St,  London,  41 

Bartlett,  96 
Bartlow,  3,  23,  24,  121 
Barton,  87,  121 
Barway,  121 
Bassingbourne,  12i 
Bates,  2 


INDEX. 


209 


Hattcson,  14-1 
IJoale,  175 
lU'con,  51,  12G 
l^oddingbam,  26 
I'oderoll,  35 
Beer,  5,  7,  29 
r.v'^a,  3 

lit  Ucijcter,  Thomas,  16 
llellezetter,  12 
Bellman,  60 

Boll-window,  at  York,  8,  17 
IJtntley,  Eicliard,  D.D.,  131 
Bi'uwick,  122 
Borden,  98 
Boniard,  33 

Berrio,  Rev.  Eobart,  162 
Bctham,  15 

Bcttelin,  3  •         .  ■ 

r.ettson,  69 
Bildcston,  196 
Bilncy,  61 
Birdbolt  Lane,  140 
Birnungham,  105 
lUiithcrwyclve,  29 

/.7.  us,  William,  and  Sons,  105,  120,  121 
Bliokling  Homilies,  43 
Blois,  Peter  de,  3 

Blonieficld,  25,  30,  56,  59,  124,  131, 

151,  171 
Bond's  charity,  Sohii';i,  . 
Bennett,  156 
Borough  Green,  122 
B.^ston,  3,  44 
Botolph,  Sussex,  50 
Bottisham,  65,  66,  122 
Botiilph,  St,  without  Aldgate,  44 
Boughton  Aluph,  43 
Bourn,  12,  102,  122 
Doirkr,  Rich,,  87,  121,  127,  151,  152, 

IGO,  178 
Bowman,  100 

Bowtell,  16,  29,  56,  59,  69,  71,  89, 100, 

109,  110,  112 
IJowycr,  169 
Bvoxlcy,  90 
Boxworth,  123 
Bo/.cat,  32 

Iira/:kcr,  Ansten,  51,  52,  149 
11. 


Bradwell,  124 

Bramfield,  50 

Brand,  172,  178 

Brayfield,  Cold,  197 

Brazier  (in  various  spellings),  8,  29, 

32,  142 
Brend,  29,  74 
Brentford,  43 

Briant,  103,  122,  137,  138,  140,  159, 

166,  170,  176 
Bridgeman,  123 
Brinkley,  89,  98,  123 
Brixton,  202 
Brooke,  42 
Broomfield,  84 
Browne,  124 
Buckland  Brewer,  102 
Buckley,  133 
Bullin,  151 
Bullisdon,  41,  42 
Bungay,  51,  74,  92 
Burnell,  97,  123 
Burney,  Dr,  83 

Burton  (author  of  Admirable  Curiosi- 
ties), 10,  194 

Bury  St  Edmunds,  23,  32,  33,  37,  53, 
61,  64,  71,  88,  98 

Bury,  G.,  147 

Butcher,  143 

Butler,  122 

Byrd,  Byrdo,  38,  167 

Caldecote,  13,  39,  41,  123,  196 
Calixtus  III;,  28 
Callendar,  137 

Cambridge,  bells  made  at,  67,  104,  164 
All  Saints,  3,  72,  74,  123 
Clirist  Church,  127 
St  Andrew-the-Great,  71,  88,  104, 

113,  124 
St  Andrew-the-Less,  60,  124 
St  Benedict,  3,  4,  60,  65,  66,  68,  76, 

81,  88,  98,  108,  125 
St  Botolph,  23,  24,  25,  125,  196 
St  Clement,  57,  94,  126 
St  EdAvard,  33,  61,  62,  89,  90,  107, 

108,  127 
St  Giles,  56,  127 

14 


210 


INDEX. 


St  Mary-the-Great,  4,  IG,  3G,  GO,  67, 
68,  G9,  72,  89,  99,  101,  103,  105, 

•  107,  108,  110,  111,  113,  127 
St  Mary-the-Less,  72,  128 

•  St  Matthew,  128 

St  Michael,  62,  70,  72,  91,  94,  104, 
107,  128 

St  Paul,  201  - 

St  Peter,  87,  128 

Holy  Sepulchre,  61,  88,  129 

Holy  Trmity,  60,  98,  129 

St  Pet.  Coll.,  51,  129 

Clare  Coll.,  129 

Pemb.  Coll.,  129 

Caius  Coll.,  129 

Trin.  Hall,  104,  130 

C.  C.  Coll.,  96,  125,  130 

IGng's  Coll.,  4,  14,  15,  16,  25—29, 
36,  48,  57,  58,  G8,  105,  108,  180 

Queens'  Coll.,  130 

St  Cath.  Coll.,  88,  118,  130 

Jes.  Coll.,  89,  130 

Chr.  Coll.,  96,  105,  131 

St  John's  Coll.,  62,  96,  131,  186,  201 

MagtL  Coll.,  202 

Trin.  Coll.,  85,  107,  131 

Emnian.  Coll.,  96,  132 

Sid.  Cull.,  132 

Downing  Col' .. 

Extinct  Cliui  .. 
Canipana,  181,  lIOO 
Camps,  Castle,  132 
Camps,  Shuily,  97,  104,  133 
Carleton,  35,  133 
Carlyle,  203 

Caroline,  Queen,  peal  for  her  acquittal, 

112 
Carr,  111 

Carriage,  cost  of,  6,  8,  28,  93,  186 

Catechizing,  54 

Cater,  162 

Catthorpe,  52 

Caxton,  133 

Chacombe,  99,  171 

Chandler,  liichard,  95,  147,  159,  IGO, 
199 

Change-ringing,  origin  of,  76 
Chapman,  10.';  152 


Chardstock,  23 
Charles  I.,  107,  108 
Charlton,  53 
Charterhouse,  119 
Chatteris,  100,  133 
Cheero,  162 
Chertsey,  84 
Chester,  195 

Chesterton,  85,  107,  133 
Chettisham,  134 
Cheveley,  33,  97,  98,  134 
Chichele,  Abp,  28 
Chigwell,  196 
Childe,  96,  131 
Childerley,  55,  135 
Chimes,  Chime  Barrels,  105,  199 
Chippenham,  16,  64,  135 
Chirme,  74 
Chrishall,  30 
Chrism,  23 
Chrispe,  152 
Chrysostom,  St,  55 
Church,  Chyreh,  Chirche,  35,  36,  ;)7, 
69 

Church,  Kirk,  196 

Clapper,  Pedenhall  Patent,  113 

Clapton-in-Gordano,  54 

Clarendon,  Earl  of,  IQs 

Clark,  J.  W.,  14,  25,  26,  28,  29,  30, 

58,  1S6,  193,  201 
Clark,  Richard,  133 
Clarke,  George,  84,  141 
Clarke,  John,  84,  85,  174,  197 
Clayton,  22 
Clement  VI.,  5 
Clochards,  56 — 58,  08 
Clopton,  55,  135 
Cloth  Subsidy,  seal  of,  64 
Coates,  135 
Cockfield,  63 
Coins  on  bells,  98  • 
Cok  (a  monk),  5,  0 
Coke,  58 

Colchester,  87,  199 
Coldham,  135 
Cole,  148 
Colles,  61 
Colhns,  131 


INDEX. 


211 


Comberton,  97,  135 

Commission  of  Edw.  VI.,  120,  173, 

174,  176,  196 
Congregations  of  the  Senate,  103 
Conington,  12,  33,  51,  136 
Consecration  of  bells,  28 
Conyl)eare,  121 

Cook,  John,  167  ' 

Cook,  175 

Cooke,  60,  61,  75 

Cooper,  59,  60,  67,  124 

Coot,  Sir  Charles,  103 

Cooto,  61 

Corbet,  "Jocular,"  107 
Corby,  164 

Cor])oration  Crown  Book,  69 

Cossey,  197 

Cossiiigton,  72 

Coton,  33,  64,  137,  150,  196 

Cuttcnham,  103,  137 

Cotton,  69,  146 

Covington,  134 

Cox,  Bp,  64 

Crabb,  157 

Cradocke,  70 

Crake,  124 

Crimean  War,  104 

('ii]iplogate,  105 

Croft,  Dr,  100 

Cropley,  143  -"'^^ 

Crotch,  Dr,  105,  199 

Cropland,  2,  3,  52 

Croxtou,  18,  138,  185 

Croydon,  .138 

Crucifixion,  representation  of,  61 
Cudham,  41 

Culver,  a  wood  pigeon,  43 
Cuhwrdcn,  43—50,  200 
Curfew,  59,  104 
Curtice,  138 
Cyprian,  55 

IhinieU  28,  36,  48 

Darhic,  John,  89,  90,  91,  143,  153,  163, 
172 

Darbic,  Michael,  90,  175 
Davis,  151 

I^Hwea,  Kichard,  109 


Dawson,  147 

Day,  103,  127,  142,  204 

Dean,  forest  of,  10 
Decian,  persecution,  125 
De-la-Warr,  Earl,  102,  149 
Denston,  140 
Depden,  Essex,  37 
Derby,  16,  195 
Dickinson,  163 
Diddington,  57 
iJier,  John,  84,  85,  118 
Dimock,  168 

Ditton,  Fen,  85,  88,  94,  138,  202 
„     Wood,  18,  01,  63,  65,  139,  174, 
197 

Dixon,  125 

DixBon,  66 

Dobede,  166 

Dobito,  155 

Dohson,  102,  104,  122,  123,  125,  128, 
132,  139,  144,  154,  155,  156,  168, 
175, 179 

Doddington,  98,  139 
Dodson,  70,  170 
Dogget,  Provost,  25,  196 
Downham,  in  the  Isle,  3,  140,  186, 
200 

Downham  Market,  101,  102,  104,  125, 
128,  131,  132,  134,  139,  151,  154, 
158,  160,  163,  168,  173,  175,  179, 
180 

Draper,  John,  64,  65,  66,  88,  122,  123, 
125,  135,  139,  140,  141,  152,  155, 
156,  157,  162,  164,  166,  168,  177 

Draper,  Thomas,  152,  168 

Drayton,  Dry,  100,  140 

Drayton,  Fen,  104,  140 
,,    Parslow,  95,  199 

Duflield,  14 

Dullingham,  65,  140 

Dunedge,  172 

Dunkiu,  38 

Dunton,  98 

Durham,  54 

Duport,  Dr,  92 

Duxford,  St  John,  97,  141 

Duxford,  St  Peter,  3,  84,  141 

Dyrham,  16 

14—2 


I 

f 


212 


INDEX. 


Eaij-re,  Joseph,  100,  102,  131,  133,  138, 
140,  142,  143,  148,  101,  162,  164, 
168,  170,  172,  175,  176,  178,  180 

Ecton,  99,  171 

Edingley,  13 

Edmonds,  Islip,  101,  102 
Edryngham,  Sir  W,  de,  28 
Edward  I.,  06  , 
Edward  III.,  5 
Edwards,  120 
Egelric,  Abbot,  3 
Eldridge,  84,  117 

Elizabeth,  Queen,  61,  64,  68,  107,  108 
EUacombe,  6—16,  21,  27,  40,  41,  52, 

54,  99,  171,  182,  193,  194 
Ellard,  151 
Ellis,  W.  H.  M.,  Ill 
Elm,  4,  98,  141,  203  - 
Elsenbam,  43 
Elsworth,  203 
Eltisley,  18,  85,  142 
Ely  Cathedral,  3,  4—10,  98,  142,  151, 

153,  108,  194,  203 
Ely,  Bishops  of,  5,  59,  60,  171 
Ely,  Holy  Trinity,  33,  74,  142,  143 
Ely,  House,  171 
Ely,  St  Mary,  102 
Emery,  Archd.,  Ill 
Emneth,  lOli,  203 
Erelich,  Erh-cl:,  = 
Erith,  5,  6  ' 
Erthtyde,  35 
Eskham,  28 

Evangelists,  emblems  of,  19 
Eversden,  Great,  143 
Eversden,  Little,  97,  143 
Eynesford,  90 
Exeter,  6,  8 

Fairchild,  161 
Fairlight,  18 
Earbank,  164 

Favinc,  58  .  . 

Feltwell,  90 
Fergus,  3 

Ffoundor,  William,  21 
Fisher,  H.,  106 
Fitch,  51 


Flanders,  143 
FHtwick,  85 

Fonder,  Danyell,  a  vintner,  28,  36,  48 
Ford  Abbey,  30 
Fordham,  87,  144 
Fordham,  Bp,  59,  60  ■ 
Foulmire,  98,  144 
Founders,  difficulties  of,  94 
Fowle,  127 
Fox,  125 

Foxton,  144,  204 
Franclce,  Aid.,  60 
Frankincense,  28 
Freeman,  94,  137 

French  ornamentation,  27,  49,  50,  63 
Frost,  123,  124,  140 
Fulbourn,  4,  32,  56,  102,  144 
Furneaux,  Pelham,  43,  98 
Fyson,  143 

"  Gabriel"  Bell,  33,  60,  154 

Gamlingay,  147,  199 

Gardiner,  Thos.,  97,  134,  139,  141,  176 

Garnham,  118 

Gatty,  Dr,  70 

Ghein,  Vanden,  51,  196 

Gibbs,  72 

Gifford,  109,  128,  140 

Gilpin,  Samuel,  97 

Girton,  94,  147 

Glevum,  10 

Gloucester,  41 

Joh.  de,  5,  6,  194 
Sandre  de,  10,  11,  191 

Gloucestershire,  church  bells  of,  171, 
193 

Goche,  Dr,  70 
Goode,  178 
Goodwin,  Bp,  9,  194 
150 

Goold,  D.,  148 
Gorefield,  147  . 
Govett,  205 

Gransden,  Little,  41,  147 
Grantchester,  91,  148 
Graveley,  85,  148 
Graves,  125 
Gray,  Dr,  205 


INDEX. 


213 


nr,nje,  Christopher,  89,  90,  91,  93,  97, 
123,  11^7,  128,  130,  133,  134,  136, 
1-17,  149,  152,  154,  15G,  1G4,  1G7, 
1G8,  180,  202,  203 

Grayc,  .Miles,  87,  120,  121,  130,  136, 
141,  143,  144,  147,  149,  150,  151, 
155,  156,  159,  161,  166,  168,  176, 
177,  178,  186,  199,  204,  206 

(Moeiistcad,  197 

(Jrcenwicli  Hospital  Clock,  101 
Orouud,  Edw.,  176 
(hiiias,  35,  44 
Cnnton,  174 

Guniey,   50,   71,   88,  89,  125,  129, 

180 
Gurrowe,  46 
Giitlilac,  8 
Guyliirn,  148,  204 
Gyies,  W.,  141,  203 

Haaacnliam,  86,  87,,  90,  93,  94,  98, 

118,  186 
H.rtdley,  139 
llailcd,  172 
lialoy,  152 
HiiLstGad,  Essex,  64 
Ham,  East,  197 
Hamom),  38 
Hampton  Court,  -iJ-! 
llanchett,  152  „. 
Hancock,  14G 
Haml,  134 

Harbert,  William,  87,  120 
Harding,  55 
Hurdwick,  149 
Hardy,  156 
Harleston,  113 
Harlton,  149 
Harmondsworth,  117 
Harrison,  H.,  177 
Harrison,  John,  29 
Harrys,  Thomas,  29,  36,  48 
Harston,  52,  149 
Hart,  170 
Har\'cy,  205 
Hasclum,  127,  128 
Hasliugfield,  102,  149 
Hutley,  East,  150 


Hatley,  St  George,  203 

"Haukes  Belles,"  48 

Hausley,  IViUiam,  85,  148,  1G5,  203 

Hauxtou,  150 

Haweis,  51 

Hawke,  Wilelmus,  28  ' 
Haylock,  140,  180 
Hayues,  90 

Hayward,  46,  143,  144 
Hazlewood,  111 
Headley,  151 
Iledderley,  George,  14 
HeUesdon,  12 

Hemington,  C,  150,  161  • 

Henry  V.,  28 

Henry  VL,  27 

Henshaic,  W.,  41 

Heralds,  difficulties  with,  47 

Hermitage,  59 

Herne,  119 

Herring,  128 

Hertford  foundry,  103,  137,  170,  17G, 
198 

Hesketh,  109 
Hessewell,  60 
Hetherington,  140 
Heytesbury,  19 
Hildersham,  150 
Hiuton,  70 

Hintou,  Cherry,  13,  18,  59,  151 
Hiuxton,  151,  204 
Histon,  151,  205 
Hitch,  141,  159,  203 
Hodson,  John,  88,  89,  91,  138,  164, 
167 

Holbeche,  132 
Holbourn,  171 
Holder,  W.,  161 

Iloldfehl,  ruchard,  85,  107,  131,  133, 

165,  198 
Holland,  46 
Holloway,  Serj.,  91 
Holmes,  clockmaker,  101 
Holmes,  Gervas,  111,  113 
Holmes,  W.,  163 
Holt,  John,  110 
Hone,  145 

Horningsey,  64,  65,.  88,  152 


214 


INDEX. 


Horseheath,  104,  152 
"Horynger,"  62 
Houghton,  New,  16 
"  Houndisdich,"  44 
Howcard,  139 
Hubbard,  84 
Huckle,  148 
Hull,  89,  123 
Hurste,  66 
Hutchins,  20 
Hutt,  111 
Hutton,  199 

Ickletou,  3,  152,  205 

"  I  know  that  my  Eedeemer  liveth," 

movement  from,  taken  for  Cambridge 

chimes,  106 
Ilketshall,  St  Margaret,  20 
Impington,  18,  38,  88,  153 
Incarsole,  109 
Indulgences,  60 
Ingle,  169 
Inglett,  162 
Tngulphus,  2,  3 
Inventories,  53 
de  riale,  Bp,  5 
Ipswich,  91 
Isaacson,  153 
Isleliam,  33,  91, 
Ishngton,  . 
Itinerant  fouiKlL  u  ,  i 
Ivatt,  137 

St  Ives,  70,  71,  72,  98,  99 

Jacklin,  66,  125 
Jarrold,  135 
Jeffrie,  72 
Jenkins,  83 
Jenkinson,  141 
Jepps,  120 
Jerningham,  197 
Jessopp,  197 

Jesus,"  name  of  hell,  7,  8,  194 
Jewel,  55 
Jobson,  179 

"John,"  name  of  bell,  7,  8 
Johnson,  G.,  124,  134,  156,  163,  175, 
176 


Jones,  Thomas,  91 
Jonson,  Ben,  quoted,  68 
Jowett,  105 

Jurden,  Henry,  26,  28,  29,  36,  41,  50, 
58,  195 

Keane,  132 

Kearney,  111 

Keene,  Bishop,  171 

Keene,  Richard,  88,  97,  123,  180 

Kelsale,  90 

Kemp,  167 

Kennett,  3,  30,  94,  154,  196 

Kente,  123 

Kentte,  60 

Kerrich,  109 

Kettering,  101 

Key,  148 

Keynsham,  60 

King,  60,  69,  71,  122,  196 

Kingsbury,  38 

Kingston,  33,  46,  47,  154,  205 
Kirklington,  13 
Kirtling,  155 
Knap  well,  155 
Knight,  122,  153 

Lagden,  118 
Lamb,  125 

Land,  William,  62,  64,  66,  131,  167, 
177 

Landbeach,  42,  61,  62,  63,  155 

Landwade,  30,  155 

Langley,  109 

Lantaff,  J.,  138 

Latimer,  61 

Lavenham,  87 

Laver,  High,  197 

Laver-pots,  11,  48 

Lawrence,  Thomas,  44 — 77 

Lawsell,  123 

Lay-folks'  mass-book,  53 

Layton,  197 

Lectorn,  36 

Lee,  172 

Leeds,  138 

Leicester,  71,  85,  131,  142 
Leicester  (All  Saints),  126 


INDEX. 


215 


Lenne,  Thomas  de,  IG,  180 
Leunox,  Duke  of,  107 
Lcnse,  118 
Lester,  Thomas,  153 
Le.<ter  and  Pack,  58,  103,  144,  152, 
15G 

L'Estrange,  12,  16,  30,  32,  52,  G2, 

1G4,  1G8 
Loverington,  156 
Leivin  and  Co.,  202 
Loylancl,  4G 
Lidgate,  88 

Light,  "surprising  Phaenomenon," 
173 

Liudsell,  137 
Liuton,  156 
Liquor,  spiced,  12 
Litlington,  156 
Littleport,  G8,  157,  200  " 
Llanfair-ar-y-Bryn,  171 
Loggan,  57,  131 
Lohvorth,  97,  157 

London,  14,  20,  28,  29,  41,  43,  46,  52, 
96,  99,  103,  124,  128,  151,  153,  162, 
174,  180 

Lonsdale,  156 

Loomes,  J.,  175 

Loughborough,  102,  128,  132,  150,152, 
159 

Louis  XVL,  dumb  ]^i'it!  f  Ti 

Louvain,  48,  51,  190  ' 

Luard,  67,  111 

Ludlam,  101,  103,  104 

Lulds,  19,  24,  91,  194 

Lyndsell,  133 

Lynn,  5,  6,  16,  93,  94 

Mackenzie,  113 
Madingley,  13,  14,  157,  194 
Malton,  138 
Manca,  158 

Manners,  Lord  Robert,  dumb  peal  for, 

112 
Marcall,  148 
March,  53,  158 
Margaretting,  46 
Mariett,  133 
Markham,  148 


Marriott,  179 

Marshall,  125,  163 

Martin,  Thos.,  134,  140,  173 

Mason,  Dr,  56,  71,  100,  109 

Mason,  W.,  173 

Masters,  173 

Maulden,  84 

Mawson,  Bishop,  142 

Mayo,  111 

Meade,  Nicholas,  147 

Mears,  104,  117,  122,  124,  133,  135, 
137,  140,  141,  149,  151,  155,  162, 
1G6,  167,  174,  177,  180,  205 

Melbourne,  87,  95,  159  ■ 

Melchbourne,  102 

Meldreth,  102 

Mepal,  159 

Merry,  161 

Metals,  price  of,  5,  7,  8,  90,  186 
Metcalfe,  72 

Mildenhall,  Suffolk,  23,  25,  26,  54,  126 

Mileham,  90 

Miller,  153 

Millington,  Dr,  00 

Milton,  159 

Mhns,  South,  139 

Minett,  144 

Monkton,  West,  27 

Monmouth,  Duke  of,  108 

Montague,  Bishop,  107 

Moore,  Capt.  ^.  P.,  113 

Moore,  Rev.  Thos.,  176 

Morden,  Ed.,  168 

Morden,  GuUden,  23,  24,  160 

Morden,  Steeple,  160 

Morgan,  143 

Morris,  J.,  148 

Mortars,  51 

Mortlock,  111 

Mott,  96 

Mowtlowe,  Dr,  70,  72 
Mumby,  19, 195 
Murrow,  160 
Mynott,  120 

Nashe,  Thomas,  202 
Nassau,  Count  of,  107 


21G 


INDEX. 


J^t  Neots,  100,  102,  118,  122,  124,  129, 
131,  138, 140,  142,  143,  144,  148, 149, 
IGO,  1C2,  1G4,  1G8,  1G9,  170,  171, 
172 

Newcomle,  William,  85,  86,  142 
Newman,   Charles,  93,  94,  138,  147, 

154,  161,  168,  169,  206 
Neivman,  Thos.,  98,  122,  123,  124,  126, 

123,  129,  135,  140,  144,  ^48,  149, 

151,  152,  153,  157,  159,  163,  172, 

176 

Newmarket,  107,  205 
Newmarket,  All  Saints,  97,  205 
Newton,  20,  22,  23,  52,  161 

,,      Bromswold,  32 
Newton-in-the-Islo,  160,  205 
Nichols,  5 

Nicholson,  15,  26,  36,  66,  122 
Ninfield,  20 
Nola,  181,  200 

Norris,  66,  70,  72,  73,  74,  75,  124,  138, 
141,  143,  161,  162,  173,  185,  203, 
204 

North,  13,  14,  16,  17, 18,  21,  29,  38,  40, 

52,  193,  195 
Northampton,  5,  6 

Northumberland,  Duke  of,  dumb  peal 

for,  112 
Norton,  Herts.,  19 

Norwich,  13,  2'J,  :  .  97,  101,  107, 
109,  142,  144 

St  Stephen's  Church,  47 
"  Norwyco,  Wilelmus  de,  12,  51,  137 
Nottingham,  13,  14,  16,  86,  87 
Nunn,  John,  170 

Oakington,  IGl 
Obiits,  60 

Oldfield,  16,  86,  198 
Oliver,  28 
Orwell,  94,  161 

Osborn,  Thomas,  102, 103, 126,  131,  134, 
151,  156,  157, 158,  160,  162, 163,  1G6, 
173,  175,  179  • 

Osborne,  46 

Over,  53,  161 

Overton  Cold,  126 

Owen,  48,  196 


Oxborough,  63 

Oxford,  102 

,,     Crown  of  Charles  I.,  89 
,,     Merton  College,  90,  91 
,,     Tom  of,  88 

Pachey,  123 

Pack  and  Chapman,  103,  104,  118, 123, 

127,  128 
Palavicini,  Sir  Henry,  118 
Pampisford,  162 
Papworth,  St  Agnes,  1G2 

,,        Everard,  53 
Pardue,  172 
Paris,  103,  127 
Parish,  168 
Parkin,  132 
Parron,  J.,  128 
Parson  Drove,  102,  162 
Paskull,  124 

Paulinus,  Bp  of  Nola,  181 ,  200 
Peacock,  Dean,  9 

D.  A.,169 
Peals,  Occasional,  107 
Pearse,  132 

Pearson,  132,  198,  199 
Pebmarsh,  22 
Pock,  134,  152 
Pecocke,  42 
Pega,  3 

Pell,  143,  206  . 
Pemberton,  46 
Penkivel,  38 

Fenn,  10,  98,  142,  151,  169,  172 
Perse,  69,  70 

••Peter,"  name  of  bell,  5,  8,  9 
Peterborough,  98,  99,  175,  176 
Pettet,  138 
Peverell,  Pain,  3 
Peyton,  33,  153 

Fhelps,  Richard,  99, 103,  108,  120, 127, 

128 
Phipp,  138 
Phipps,  127,  128 
Picardy,  50 
Pindar,  91 

Pleasant,  Henry,  97,  177 
Plumptre,  58 


INDEX. 


217 


I'oule,  177 

I'ortc-r,  W.,  137,  148  . 
••rotter,"  86,  185 

rotteispury,  29 
iv.ltoc,  72 

i'laU,  (13,  105-,10{),  U\>,  197 


ViX'Uy,  GG 

Trickwillow,  99,  103 
I'li-st's  bell,  54 
I'roctor's  book,  4 
Tructor,  Leonard,  111 
Protection,  48 
r  areas,  123 
I'lnkis,  118,  152 
I'yke,  128 
I'ytebyc,  155 

guy,  91,  103  , 

riUinpton,  41,  103 
Uuiulall,  Dr,  103,  105 
lUwlinson,  202 
Hayner,  1-14 
!Uach,  1G4 
n<iul,  152,  175 
K'raaiuK,  40,  195 
l;,'bus,  42 

JU.'ikiihall,  patent  elui  j     :   '  3 
lU'd-rave,  91 
lUeJ,  J.,  148 
Ucepham,  04 
llees,  111 

"Jiccpiicm   Eternam,"  trcntal  tune, 
105 

Revc,  Roger,  37,  48,  04 
Kevel,  135 

Kevvcl,  liichard,  119 
Uich,  Lord,  190 
lUchardson,  138 
lliley,  14 
Uipster,  152 
Uisliy,  33 
lioads,  204 
Hobinson,  162,  163 
K.ibson,  70,  72 
itock,  Dr,  54 


Kocket,  111 
Koe,  109 

Rogation  bells,  197 
Eolfe,  146 
Rolleston,  13 
Hood- screens,  52 


Hoy,  15i 

Eoyal  arms,  24,  26,  196 

,,     heads,  13,  16,  195 

„     visits,  107 
Eoyston,  97,  172 
Enle,  152,  1C3 
Eumboldswyke,  84 
Eussel,  99 

Eye,  hand-bell  at,  51 
Eyon,  46 

Sacrin|  bell,  5B, 

yaffml,  104rin,  iM);  140,  152 

Salisbury,  146 

Salutatio  Angeh,  GO,  194 

Sanctus  Bell,  53,  54,  67,  120,  162,  173, 

196 
Sangrede,  35 
Sangster,  152 
Sainuh'rs,  John,  40,  195 
SaNYston,  164 
Saxmundham,  19,  90 
Scambler,  Bp,  64 
Scarborough,  148 
Scarlette,  70,  72 
Scribo,  Scribant,  Scribeau,  173 
Scruby,  149 
Seaber,  113,  144 
Sennitt,  168 
Serocold,  Wm,,  151 
Sexteyn,  61 
Sharpe,  149,  158,  160 
Shelford,  Great,  16,  65,  66,  164 

Little,  85,  97,  107,  165,  198, 

205 

Shepherd,  153 
Shepreth,  85,  97,  165 
Sherwood,  75 
ShiUington,  199 
Shingay,  165 


218 


INDEX. 


Shipway,  110 
Shouldham,  52 
Shulbred  Priory,  107 
Silverley,  1G5 
Simmons,  53 
Simpson,  73 
Sizer,  166 
"Skilletae,"  3 
Slapton,  13,  14 
Smalwood,  67 
Smith,  K.  H.,  Ill,  200 

„     E.,  173 
Snailwell,  3,  33,  165 
Soham,  103,  112,  166,  184 
"Soller,"'  58 

Southampton,  Earl  of,  107,  165 
Sonthea,  166 
Southease,  14 
Southelmham,  St  Peter,  21 
Southmalling,  89 
Spencer,  172,  198 

Sperling,  84,  95,  117,  118,  149,  155, 
159 

Stainhanlc,  58,  122,  162,  205 
Stamford,  66,  72—75,  198 
Stanstead  Abbots,  198 

Mouutfitchet,  50,  90 
Stanton,  Long,  166 
Stanway,  199 
Stapleford,,6('),  8s  , 
Steane,  174 

Stedman,  Fabian,  76,  79,  80,  82,  84, 

106 
Steele,  75 
Steeple,  Dorset,  43 
Stephens,  157 

Stetchworth,  12,  33,  61,  87,  167 
Stow,  Long,  38,  167 
Stowe,  119 

Stowe-jiine-chnrches,  14 — 16 
Strand,  177 

Stratford,  St  Mary,  Sullolk,  43 
Stratton,  Long,  52 
Stretham,  64,  105,  168 
Sturbridge  Fair,  59 

Sudbury,  97,  133,  134,  135,  155,  176, 
177 

Sudbury,  John,  176 


Sullington,  50 

Surprise  Peal,  The  Fulbourn,  147 
Sutton,  94,  98,  168 
Sutton,  .Sir  Thomas,  119 . 

„      King's,  90 
Swaffham,  Bulbeck,  102,  169 
Prior,  169,  170 
,,        St  Cyriac,  3,  56 
Swan,  111 

Swann,  141,  161,  164 
Sweeting,  53,  54,  175,  176 

Tadlow,  39,  170 
Tailer,  J.,  170 
Tailor,  William,  118,  119 
Takely,  43,  206 
Tansley,  H.,  157 
Tarring  Neville,  27 
Tatwin,  3 

Taylor,  John,  143  .. 
Sam.,  160 

,,      Wm.,  164 
Taylor,  J.  and  Co.,  59,  102,  128,  130, 
132,  150,  151,  152,  159,  206 

„  jRoht.,  122,  124,  129,  138,  149, 
161,  162,  169,  171 

,,      Win.  and  John,  134 
Tebbit,  112,  113,  166 
Tetsall,  135 
Teversham,  59,  171 
Thacker,  Thomas,  46 
Thetford,  88,  171 
Thompson,  168 
Thorney,  6,  8,  99,  171,  173 
Thornton,  John,  97,  133,  135,  177 
Thriplow,  100,  171 
Thurlow,  Great,  97 
Till,  172 

Ting-tang,  53—55,  67 
Tixover,  38 
Toft,  13,  14,  172 
Tom-o-Lincoln,  86 
Tomson,  72 

Tojine,  26,  48,  50,  59,  61—64,  119, 

127,  139,  155,  167,  177,  178,  197 
Torksey,  195 
Totteridge,  139 

Tottington,  Abbot  Sampson  de,  52 


INDEX. 


219 


Tower,  '206 

I  ralTortl,  Sigismund,  98,  172,  173,  206 
Traylcu,  133 

Troiulola,  trendiill  (a  wheel),  6 
Troytc,  81 
'rruiuiian,  133 

I'ruinpiugton,  33,  56,  91,  172 
Turiiiuc,  17  '  f 

Turkotyl,  3 
rwineham,  26 

Tydd  St  Giles,  53,  98,  172,  206 
Tymbs,  157 

Tymms,  1,  35,  37,  61,  105,  155 
Tijnny,  40,  48 

Tyssen,  14,  18,  22,  38,  40,  41,  42,  43, 
81,  99,  194 

I'iHtor,  Paii.  army  in,  108 
•  'iictiou,  Extreme,  oil  for,  28 
rnJn-ltiH,  21,  22 
Ciiivorsity  Bell,  4,  69 
rpwcll,  173 

V.Minlles,  72  ,        .  , 

Veil!..,  18 

Vc-sey,  llev.  F.  G.,  Ill 
Voss,  Gerard,  182 

Waiuilcet,  I'.ll 

Wulik-n,  Saffron,  88,  S'.'    \  \ 
Wulker,  168 
Wnllid,  141  . 
Wulhnan,  178  • 
Wal-oh,  185 

Wulsinghara,  Alan  de,  4—9,  194 

Wanlip,  17,  185 

Ward,  137,  177 

Ward  all,  131 

M'ui-liani,  170 

Wjiring,  129 

Jl'(()-»cr,  John  and  Soiia,  105,  151,  164, 

,16S,  204 
n'arreu,  67,  68,  128,  155 
\Vut(nl)cach,  173 
Wuierliou^e,  70 
Wiittisfiold,  64 
Watts,  Jliigl},  71,  85,  101 
Way,  194 


Waylett,  John,  97,  135,  156,  160,  176, 
177 

Waynflete,  William  of,  195 

Weales,  127 

Webster,  110 

Weeley,  42 

Welham,  72 

Welney,  84,  174 

Wendy,  174 

Wendye,  T.,  150 

West,  38 

Westley  Waterless,  3,  174 
Westminster  Bell,  87 

,,         Education  at,  44 
Westoe,  132 
Weston,  Buckhorn,  26 

Colville,  65,  104,  139,  174 
Whaddon,  90,  175 
Whatley,  41 
White,  75 

Whitechapel,  96,  100,  101,"  103,  104 
"Wliisldn,  170 
Whittet,  149 
Whittington,  204 
Whittlesea,  St  Andrew's,  175 

St  Mary's,  53,  175 
Whittlesford,  97,  98,  176 
Wicken,  33,  61,  62,  64,  176 

,,       Breaux,  43 
Wickham,  West,  23,  24,  97,  177 
Wicksted,  72 
Wightman,  99 
Wigram,  84 
Wilbraham,  Great,  177 

Little,  61,  178 
Wilburton,  102,  206 
Wiles,  184 
WilHamson,  179 
Willingham,  100,  178 
Willis,  Browne,  171 
Wilshe,  Matt.,  126 
Wilson,  Dr,  Prof,  of  Music,  91 
Wimbish  (under  various  spellings),  14 
Wimblington,  178 
Wimpole,  178 

Wisbech,  Chapel  of  Ease,  180 
,,        St  Augustine,  179 
St  Mary,  58,  179 


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INDEX. 


Wisbech,  St  Peter,  53, 
20G 

Witcham,  180 
Witchford,  ih. 
Wolard,  118,  119 
Woldiugliam,  17-1 
Wollaston,  107 
Wood,  Anthony  a,  90 
Wood,  John,  99,  103 
Woodgate,  105 
Woodstock,  97 
Woolborough,  52,  19G 
Woolfe,  70 


GO,  10-2,  179, 


WorHngton,  88 
Wormington,  198 
Wrangell,  138 
Wratting,  West,  16,  97,  lO-i 
Wrentham,  198 
Wright,  75 

Yarmouth,  200 
York,  8,  17 

Yorke,  Joli.  de,  10,  17,  195 

John,  09,  71 
Yorkist  rose-en-solcil,  52 
"Youths,  Cambridge,"  108 


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